High-stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook High-stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning write by David W. Hursh. This book was released on 2008. High-stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that education in the States and Britain has been radically transformed, through efforts to create curricular standards, and through an emphasis on accountability measured by standardized tests, and efforts to introduce market competition and private services into educational systems.
The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing
The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing write by Michael Russell. This book was released on 2009-02-01. The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a nation, we spend more than $1 billion a year on federally mandated educational tests that 30 million students must take each year. The country spends an additional $1.2 billion on test preparation materials designed to help students pass these tests. While test mandates were put in place with good intentions, increasingly educational leaders and policy makers are questioning these test based reform efforts. Some question whether these programs are doing more harm than good. Others call for the development of more and better tests. Given the vast amount of resources our nation pours into testing, is it time we pay closer attention to these testing programs? Is it time we hold the testing industry and policy makers accountable for the tests they make and use? Is it time we invest resources to develop new ways of testing our students? The Paradoxes of High-Stakes Testing explores these and other questions, as it helps parents, teachers, educational leaders, and policy makers better understand the complexities of educational policies that use tests as a lever for improving the quality of education. The book explores: >> how testing is used to enable teachers and schools to be more effective and improve student learning, >> why testing is so ingrained in the American psyche and why policy makers rely on testing policies to reform our educational system, >> what we can learn from a long history of test-based reform efforts that have occurred over centuries and across continents, >> what effects testing has on teaching and learning in our schools when it is used to solve political, social, or economic problems. Most importantly, the book describes several ways in which testing can be improved to provide more accurate and more useful measures of student learning. Many of these improvements capitalize on technology to provide teachers with more detailed, diagnostic information about student learning and measure skills that some leaders argue are essential for the 21st century work force. Exploring what is within reach is critical because current testing policies are hindering these improvements. Finally, given that testing is and will continue to be an integral part of our educational system, the book concludes that, like other sectors of our society, educational testing must be more closely monitored to ensure that high quality tests are used to measure student achievement and to minimize the negative effects that testing has on students, schools, and our society. Given the opportunity our nation has to rethink and redesign its testing policies, The Paradoxes of High-Stakes Testing presents a clear strategy to maximize the positive effects of educational testing.
The Unintended Consequences of High-stakes Testing
The Unintended Consequences of High-stakes Testing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unintended Consequences of High-stakes Testing write by M. Gail Jones. This book was released on 2003. The Unintended Consequences of High-stakes Testing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To understand how high-stakes accountability has influenced teaching and learning, this book looks at the consequences that high-stakes tests hold for students, teachers, administrators, and the public, and demonstrates the negative effects of such testing on nontested subjects, minority students, and students with special needs.
Pencils Down
Pencils Down - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pencils Down write by Wayne Au. This book was released on 2012. Pencils Down available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This powerful collection from the groundbreaking Rethinking Schools magazine takes high-stakes standardized tests to task. Despite overwhelming evidence that the tests are invalid ways to measure teaching and learning -- and continuing signs of their unjust effects on students and teachers -- "reformers" and policymakers continue to force high-stakes tests into the public schools. Through articles that provide thoughtful and emotional critiques from the frontlines of education, Pencils Down deconstructs the damage that standardized tests wreak on our education system and the human beings that populate it. Better yet, it offers visionary forms of assessment that are not only more authentic, but also more democratic, fair, and accurate.
Stop High-stakes Testing
Stop High-stakes Testing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stop High-stakes Testing write by Dale D. Johnson. This book was released on 2008. Stop High-stakes Testing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The objectives of corrective justice are affordable housing with reliable running water and electricity; employment for parents and guardians to make a living wage; top-notch tutors for all children who need them; equity in school buildings, personnel, and resources; adequate medical and dental care for all students; and violence-free communities and home lives. These objectives are appropriate in a nation where children recite the words "with liberty and justice for all" at the start of each school day. The authors argue that until corrective justice has been established, high-stakes testing in public schools must be discontinued."--BOOK JACKET.
