The Pedagogy of Standardized Testing
The Pedagogy of Standardized Testing

Author: Arlo Kempf

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1137486651

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Based on a large-scale international study of teachers in Los Angeles, Chicago, Ontario, and New York, this book illustrates the ways increased use of high-stakes standardized testing is fundamentally changing education in the US and Canada with a negative overall impact on the way teachers teach and students learn. Standardized testing makes understanding students' strengths and weaknesses more difficult, and class time spent on testing consumes scarce time and attention needed to support the success of all students—further disadvantaging ELLs, students with exceptionalities, low income, and racially minoritized students.

The Effects of Standardized Testing
The Effects of Standardized Testing

Author: T. Kelleghan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 9400973861

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When George Bernard Shaw wrote his play, Pygmalion, he could hardly have foreseen the use of the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in debates about standardized testing in schools. Still less could he have foreseen that the validity of the concept would be examined many years later in Irish schools. While the primary purpose of the experimental study reported in this book was not to investigate the Pygmalion effect, it is inconceivable that a study of the effects of standardized testing, conceived in the 1960s and planned and executed in the 1970s, would not have been influenced by thinking about teachers' expectations and the influence of test information on the formation of those expectations. While our study did pay special attention to teacher expectations, its scope was much wider. It was planned and carried out in a much broader framework, one in which we set out to examine the impact of a standardized testing program, not just on teachers, but also on school practices, students, and students' parents.

Contradictions of School Reform
Contradictions of School Reform

Author: Linda McNeil

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1135963290

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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Writing and School Reform
Writing and School Reform

Author: Joanne Addison

Publisher: CSU Open Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781607326458

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In Writing and School Reform, Joanne Addison and Sharon James McGee respond to a testing and accountability movement that has imposed increasingly stronger measures of control over our classrooms, shifted teaching away from best practices, and eroded teacher and student agency. Drawing on historical and empirical research, Writing and School Reform details the origins of the accountability movement, explores its emerging effects on the teaching of writing, and charts a path forward that reasserts the agency of teachers and researchers in the field.

Making the Grades
Making the Grades

Author: Todd Farley

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1609944739

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In this alternately amusing and appalling exposé of the standardized test industry, fifteen-year veteran Todd Farley describes statisticians who make decisions about students without even looking at their test answers; state education officials willing to change the way tests are scored whenever they don't like the results; and massive, multi-national, for-profit testing companies who regularly opt for expediency and profit over the altruistic educational goals of teaching and learning. Although there are absurd moments--as when Farley and coworkers had to grade students based on how they described the taste of their favorite food-- the enormous importance of standardized tests in the post “No Child Left Behind” era make this no laughing matter. “This book is dynamite! The nice personal voice makes it utterly accessible and enticing, wholly apart from the terribly important ammunition it provides to those of us in the `testing wars' at national and local levels.”—Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequities

The Truth about Testing
The Truth about Testing

Author: W. James Popham

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 0871205238

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Discusses good and bad student testing, shows teachers how to construct accurate methods of assessment and use their results to teach, and explains how teachers can protect themselves and students by educating parents, policy makers, and others about what kinds of testing are effective.

The High Stakes of Testing
The High Stakes of Testing

Author: Amy L. Kelly

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 9004401369

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The High Stakes of Testing explores student experiences and perceptions of standardized testing through a governmentality lens informed by critical pedagogy. This research exposes prevalent mechanisms of control, adverse effects, and the urgency of student voice work in our schools.

The Test
The Test

Author: Anya Kamenetz

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1610394429

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"[The anti-testing] movement now has a guidebook. . . . Kamenetz shows how fundamentally American it would be to move toward a more holistic system." -- New York Times Book Review The Test is an essential and critically acclaimed book for any parent confounded by our national obsession with standardized testing. It recounts the shocking history and tempestuous politics of testing and borrows strategies from fields as diverse as games, neuroscience, and ancient philosophy to help children cope. It presents the stories of families, teachers, and schools maneuvering within and beyond the existing educational system, playing and winning the testing game. And it points the way toward a hopeful future of better tests and happier kids.

Beyond Testing
Beyond Testing

Author: Deborah Meier

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2017-07-14

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0807758523

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Beyond Testing describes seven forms of assessment that are more effective than standardized test results. These assessments are more honest about what we can and cannot know about childrens knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Readers can compare and contrast each approach to determine which is most appropriate for their school.