Ryan Slaughter

Debate1

10/15/14 (10:33)

L/D Debate Outline

"Anyone can achieve higher ideals or standards through true

understanding of knowledge". It is because I agree with Tyrone Howard
professor at ULCA's Graduate School of Education in the position that
Common Core will help students develope "21st century skills" on solving
problems within tests and the real world, that I feel compelled to affirm
today's resolution, in the implementation of Common Core Curriculum
examinations that require students to think critically and allow teachers to
better measure student knowledge after the test. For clarification of today's
round, I offer the following definitions: Common Core Curriculum is the
Common Core State Standards Initiative in the U.S. that details what K-12
students should know in English Language Arts and Methematics at the end
of each grade which I found on Wikipedia, Critical Thinking is the objective
analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement which I
found on Critical Thinking Communications. The highest value within today's
round is progress. Progress is defined as the ability to achieve higher ideals or
standards which I found on everydaydebate.blogspot.com. Progress is
important in today's round because Common Core Curriculum Examination
gives the student the ability to achieve higher ideals or standards in
education through the Common Core Curriculum Examination result
information that allows teachers to see where the student is failing. The best
Criterion for evaluating this resolution is Extensive Problem Solving. Extensive
Problem Solving is defined as the process of gathering all informaion required
to solve a problem as defined by dictionary.cambridge.org. It best achieves
my value of progress because through it, students will be able to think
differentally when solving problems and when test time comes put that
thinking to the test with the knowledge they have obtained during the school
year. In affirming the resolution, I offer the following contentions: Contention
I; The Common Core Curriculum Examination is more accurate measurement
of a student's knowledge. The Common Core Curriculum Examination
requires students to apply knowledge obtained from the curriculum to solve
real world problems, which measure understanding of said knowledge as well
as writing skills. With a more accurate measurement of what a student knows
and what a student doesn't know, it would be easier to identify where the
student is failing to help said student. Contention II: The West Virginia
Eductaional Standards Test (WESTEST) is not an accurate measurement of a
student's knowledge. With multiple choice questions, it is not an accurate

measurement, as well as the lack of critical thinking. Because of this,

WESTEST is not a good test for teachers to see where the child needs help,
which doesn't allow the child to progress as easily.
Contention III: The
Common Core Curriculum Examination will better prepare students for
college. Learning how to solve problems with aquired knowledge and being
able to put it to the test is a very important skill that is required for college or
even work. Being able to go to college and pass will aid you in achieving a
higher standard of living. Before analyzing my contentions, please observe
the following: the highest value within today's round is progress which is the
ability to achieve higher ideals or standards. I have shown you that The
Common Core Curriculum Examination is a more accurate measurement of
knowledge, the WESTEST is not an accurate measurement of a student's
knowledge, and that the Common Core Curriculum Examination will better
prepare you for college. For these reasons, we can clearly conclude that
progress should be upheld and the inplementation of the Commmon Core
Curriculum in schools and assessing based on the Common Core Curriculum
will more acurately measure a student's knowledge.

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