欣蓉的教學網誌

This morning, when I entered Class 314, I sensed a different atmosphere.   The students seemed happier than they used to be in a typical first class on Friday.  Usually on Friday morning they had a quiz from 7:30 to 8:10, so when I entered the classroom at 8:10, everyone would be quiet, appearing to have been weighed down with unbearable pressure.  But today, many of them were chatting like delighted chirping birds.  I asked them why they seemed so happy.  They answered that they didn’t have a quiz.  What a heavy burden tests seem to students! 

I often told my students to take the test as a game, which they play to score.   I also told them that without tests they would never know if they had really learned or remembered something.  However, tests still seem formidable to many of them.

This afternoon, Chris told me about the attitude of her student Wei-rou, the one who has been admitted to the Department of Accounting at NTU.  Last Friday, when Chris was discussing a Meow-meow test, only a few students showed interest.  Among them was Wei-rou, who already knew she was an NTU student-to-be.  As usual, she paid undivided attention and took notes.  We believe it is her attitude that decides where she is going to be.