{"id":211428,"date":"2018-09-14T21:16:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T21:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/edu-372-week-5-dq-2-to-test-or-not-to-test\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:05:04","slug":"edu-372-week-5-dq-2-to-test-or-not-to-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/edu-372-week-5-dq-2-to-test-or-not-to-test\/","title":{"rendered":"EDU 372 Week 5 DQ 2 To Test or Not to Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Test or Not to Test?. That is the question. In today&#8217;s educational culture, high stakes testing has caused many to question whether assessment is a necessary element of instruction. Does testing matter? Are assessment and measurement a valid tool for teaching and learning? Is there a better way to evaluate student needs? Can a teacher design effective instruction without assessing students beforehand? Why or why not? How will you diagnose your students&#8217; needs in order to create effective instruction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Test or Not to Test?. That is the question. In today&#8217;s educational culture, high stakes testing has caused many to question whether assessment is a necessary element of instruction. Does testing matter? Are assessment and measurement a valid tool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/edu-372-week-5-dq-2-to-test-or-not-to-test\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}