Republican Wisdom

[BigLouie]

[LexusLover]

[CuteOldGuy]

Apparently, BL is opposed to Higher Order Thinking Skills as well.

[Randy4Candy]

COsFb, the look on Governor Goodhair's face is down right intelligent and reeking of certainty in comparison to your above post.

[CuteOldGuy]

From Wiki:

The concept of higher order thinking skills (HOTS) became a major educational agenda item with the 1956 publication of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. Within the cognitive domain of Bloom's taxonomy there are six levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Higher order thinking skills are those skills in the top three levels: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. These three skill levels are important in critical thinking.

There is a notion that students must master the lower level skills before they can engage in higher order thinking. However, the National Research Council objected to this line of reasoning, saying that cognitive research challenges that assumption, and that higher order thinking is important even in elementary school.[1]
Including higher order thinking skills in learning outcomes is a very common feature of standards based education reform.

Advocates of traditional education object to elevating HOTS above direct instruction of basic skills. Many forms of education reform, such as inquiry-based science, reform mathematics and whole language emphasize HOTS to solve problems and learn, sometimes deliberately omitting direct instruction of traditional methods, facts, or knowledge. HOTS assumes standards based assessments that use open-response items instead of multiple choice questions, and hence require higher order analysis and writing. Critics of standards based assessments point out that this style of testing is even more difficult for students who are behind academically. Indeed, while minorities may lag by 10 to 25 points on standardized percentile rankings, the failure rates of minorities are two to four times the best scoring groups on tests like the WASL. It is debated whether it is correct to raise the importance of teaching process over content.[citation needed]

The Texas Republican Party expressed their opposition to the teaching of certain HOTS by including the following item in their 2012 Party Platform[2]:

"Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."

However, the final wording of this item was evidently a 'mistake' according to Republican Party of Texas Communications Director Chris Elam who said, in an interview with talkingpointsmemo.com, that the plank should not have included the phrase 'critical thinking skills' and it was not the intent of the subcommittee to indicate that the RPT was opposed to critical thinking skills". When asked to clarify the meaning of the item he said, "I think the intent is that the Republican Party is opposed to the values clarification method that serves the purpose of challenging students beliefs and undermine parental authority"

I actually support HOTS (both the education concept and the GREAT MOVIE) but the quote takes on a different light when taken in context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher...hinking_skills

[Yssup Rider]

Have you seen his knuckles?

[i'va biggen]

The child left behind..

[CJ7]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Have you seen his knuckles?

no, but the ground has

[Little Stevie]

Oh God! STFU, dumbass! Do you actually think Gov. Memory Loss really has a clue or for that matter, the Texas B of E? You're a fool!

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

From Wiki:

The concept of higher order thinking skills (HOTS) became a major educational agenda item with the 1956 publication of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. Within the cognitive domain of Bloom's taxonomy there are six levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Higher order thinking skills are those skills in the top three levels: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. These three skill levels are important in critical thinking.

There is a notion that students must master the lower level skills before they can engage in higher order thinking. However, the National Research Council objected to this line of reasoning, saying that cognitive research challenges that assumption, and that higher order thinking is important even in elementary school.[1]
Including higher order thinking skills in learning outcomes is a very common feature of standards based education reform.

Advocates of traditional education object to elevating HOTS above direct instruction of basic skills. Many forms of education reform, such as inquiry-based science, reform mathematics and whole language emphasize HOTS to solve problems and learn, sometimes deliberately omitting direct instruction of traditional methods, facts, or knowledge. HOTS assumes standards based assessments that use open-response items instead of multiple choice questions, and hence require higher order analysis and writing. Critics of standards based assessments point out that this style of testing is even more difficult for students who are behind academically. Indeed, while minorities may lag by 10 to 25 points on standardized percentile rankings, the failure rates of minorities are two to four times the best scoring groups on tests like the WASL. It is debated whether it is correct to raise the importance of teaching process over content.[citation needed]

The Texas Republican Party expressed their opposition to the teaching of certain HOTS by including the following item in their 2012 Party Platform[2]:

"Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."

However, the final wording of this item was evidently a 'mistake' according to Republican Party of Texas Communications Director Chris Elam who said, in an interview with talkingpointsmemo.com, that the plank should not have included the phrase 'critical thinking skills' and it was not the intent of the subcommittee to indicate that the RPT was opposed to critical thinking skills". When asked to clarify the meaning of the item he said, "I think the intent is that the Republican Party is opposed to the values clarification method that serves the purpose of challenging students beliefs and undermine parental authority"

I actually support HOTS (both the education concept and the GREAT MOVIE) but the quote takes on a different light when taken in context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher...hinking_skills

[Randy4Candy]

Originally Posted by Little Stevie

Oh God! STFU, dumbass! Do you actually think Gov. Memory Loss really has a clue or for that matter, the Texas B of E? You're a fool!

Goodhair's memory loss is the direct result of:

1. Being dropped on is head while he was cheerleading
2. Falling on his head from the top of the pyramid while cheerleading
3. Too much pulling on his scalp while being coiffed
4. Seepage of "product" used to keep his goodhair "good"

Hmmm, there may be a poll here.....

Of course, he didn't start out with a lot of smarts to begin with.

[LordBeaverbrook]

BL didn't make this one up. The Texas GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills in the party platform....in writing!

In the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff department, here’s what the Republican Party of Texas wrote into its 2012 platform as part of the section on education:
Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...pFXW_blog.html

[CJ7]

pretty much explains the probelm with the vast majority of rightwingers

they oppose thinking on higehr levels, and needless to say, it shows.

[EXTXOILMAN]

Obviously, understanding Bloom's Taxonomy or the HOTS method is beyond the low level thinking of the libtards on this board. They're too busy thinking back to middle school days for their next insult.

[LordBeaverbrook]

Originally Posted by EXTXOILMAN

Obviously, understanding Bloom's Taxonomy or the HOTS method is beyond the low level thinking of the libtards on this board. They're too busy thinking back to middle school days for their next insult.

Oh yeah, and 'libtards' and all the rest aren't insults, right?

The righties on the board don't even seem to have to think to be insulting, it is just embedded in the way they deal with anyone who doesn't toe the party line or agree with them on 100% of everything. BTW, most of us 'libtards' who insult you righties just do it to see how far we can incite you to go off the deep end. Others actually don't usually insult anyone at all, ever (I did have a short stint where I was inciting the reactionary right just to see how fun it might be...it was at first, but became tedious).

Go ahead, don't respond to the fact that this was part of the 2012 Texas GOP platform. Not really very much that CAN be said though is there?

[CuteOldGuy]

It was part of the Republican platform in Texas. It was wrong. I simply provided some context.

And no, I don't think Gov. Perry has a clue what education is. I would not support Gov. Perry if I was in Texas.