How Assessment Reform Can Reinvigorate K-12 Learning

Districts should invest in ongoing, practical training that helps teachers understand both new technology and how formative ...
KCRW

Is High-Stakes Testing the Ruin of School Reform?

In Atlanta, 35 teachers and administrators were indicted this week for conspiring to raise student scores on standardized tests. In El Paso, a former superintendent’s in prison for putting kids in the ...
Dallas Observer

Goodbye, STAAR Test. Hello, Something ‘Worse’

Texas has been tweaking and twisting its standardized testing system since it was first introduced in 1979, continuously looking for the best way to judge students’ capacity to learn, teachers’ ...
Berkshire Eagle

Proposal to redefine graduation standards raises fears of high-stakes testing’s return

Is high-stakes testing as a graduation requirement about to make a comeback in Massachusetts? In a preliminary draft from the co-chairs of a state panel charged with setting new graduation standards, ...
Tucson Weekly

High Stakes Testing: High Tech Edition

Three separate stories about high stakes testing, computers, servers and data. 1. Evidence indicates that some students who take high stakes tests on computers do worse than similar students who use ...
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Understanding Dropouts: Statistics, Strategies, and High-Stakes Testing

It would seem to be an easy matter to determine whether or not a student has completed secondary school, but doing so is complicated by a growing number of alternatives to the traditional path of ...
The Conversation

High‑stakes tests are common in England’s schools – and they’re linked to a fear of failure

Carolyn Jackson has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and The Nuffield Foundation. Mieke Van Houtte does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...