Not goals - incentives. I'm from Czechia and for me math education changed dramatically for the last year of high-school. All of a sudden it was crunch time to get the best result at the standardized tests that are part of government's examination.
Up until that point the math classes were very much Soviet-style understanding-first, daily hour-long homeworks that are described in the article.
Final year was about technique memorization.
Once you're gaming a system, education quality tanks.
The dilemma with tests is that we need them to measure competency, but once you introduce them, the specific form the test takes becomes a target, itself.
Up until that point the math classes were very much Soviet-style understanding-first, daily hour-long homeworks that are described in the article.
Final year was about technique memorization.
Once you're gaming a system, education quality tanks.