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The testing charade : pretending to make schools better, Daniel Koretz
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- Summary
- For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on is that schools need to be held accountable - we need to know whether what they're doing is actually working. But what does it mean in practice? High-stakes tests. Lots of them. And that has created a crisis in American schools. Daniel Koretz, one of the nation's foremost experts on educational testing, argues in The Testing Charade that the whole idea of test-based accountability has failed - it has increasingly become an end in itself, harming students and corrupting the very ideals of teaching. In this powerful polemic, built on unimpeachable evidence and rooted in decades of experience with educational testing, Koretz calls out high-stakes testing as a sham that is ripe for manipulation and shows little evidence of leading to educational improvement. Rather than setting up incentives to divert instructional time to pointless test prep, he argues, we need to measure what matters, and measure it in multiple ways - not just via standardized tests. RIght now, we're lying to ourselves about whether our children are learning. And the longer we accept that lie, the more damage we do. It's time to end our blind reliance on high-stakes tests. With The Testing Charade, Daniel Koretz insists that we face the facts and change course, and he gives us a blueprint for doing better. -- from dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 275 pages
- Contents
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- Beyond all reason
- What is a test?
- The evolution of test-based "reform"
- Campbell's law
- Score inflation
- Cheating
- Test prep
- Making up unrealistic targets
- Evaluating teachers
- Will the Common Core fix this?
- Did kids learn more?
- Nine principles for doing better
- Doing better
- Wrapping up
- Isbn
- 9780226408712
- Label
- The testing charade : pretending to make schools better
- Title
- The testing charade
- Title remainder
- pretending to make schools better
- Statement of responsibility
- Daniel Koretz
- Subject
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- trueChildren -- Testing
- EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform
- trueEducational policy
- Educational accountability -- United States
- trueAchievement tests
- Educational accountability
- EDUCATION / Curricula
- Educational tests and measurements
- trueProgram evaluation in education
- United States
- Educational tests and measurements -- United States
- EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement
- trueEducational tests and measurements
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on is that schools need to be held accountable - we need to know whether what they're doing is actually working. But what does it mean in practice? High-stakes tests. Lots of them. And that has created a crisis in American schools. Daniel Koretz, one of the nation's foremost experts on educational testing, argues in The Testing Charade that the whole idea of test-based accountability has failed - it has increasingly become an end in itself, harming students and corrupting the very ideals of teaching. In this powerful polemic, built on unimpeachable evidence and rooted in decades of experience with educational testing, Koretz calls out high-stakes testing as a sham that is ripe for manipulation and shows little evidence of leading to educational improvement. Rather than setting up incentives to divert instructional time to pointless test prep, he argues, we need to measure what matters, and measure it in multiple ways - not just via standardized tests. RIght now, we're lying to ourselves about whether our children are learning. And the longer we accept that lie, the more damage we do. It's time to end our blind reliance on high-stakes tests. With The Testing Charade, Daniel Koretz insists that we face the facts and change course, and he gives us a blueprint for doing better. -- from dust jacket
- Summary
- Right now, we’re lying to ourselves about whether our children are learning. And the longer we accept that lie, the more damage we do. It’s time to end our blind reliance on high-stakes tests. With The Testing Charade, Daniel Koretz insists that we face the facts and change course, and he gives us a blueprint for doing better
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- 371.260973
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- Contents
- Beyond all reason -- What is a test? -- The evolution of test-based "reform" -- Campbell's law -- Score inflation -- Cheating -- Test prep -- Making up unrealistic targets -- Evaluating teachers -- Will the Common Core fix this? -- Did kids learn more? -- Nine principles for doing better -- Doing better -- Wrapping up
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- ocn973371694
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- viii, 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226408712
- Lccn
- 2017012607
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- (OCoLC)973371694
- Label
- The testing charade : pretending to make schools better, Daniel Koretz
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- nc
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- Contents
- Beyond all reason -- What is a test? -- The evolution of test-based "reform" -- Campbell's law -- Score inflation -- Cheating -- Test prep -- Making up unrealistic targets -- Evaluating teachers -- Will the Common Core fix this? -- Did kids learn more? -- Nine principles for doing better -- Doing better -- Wrapping up
- Control code
- ocn973371694
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- viii, 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226408712
- Lccn
- 2017012607
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)973371694
Subject
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- trueChildren -- Testing
- EDUCATION / Curricula
- EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform
- EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement
- Educational accountability
- Educational accountability -- United States
- trueEducational policy
- Educational tests and measurements
- trueEducational tests and measurements
- Educational tests and measurements -- United States
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- trueSociety and culture -- Education
- United States
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