Tuesday, September 20, 2011

If we teach to the test, does it matter if test scores rise?

Interesting piece on why standardized tests are not necessarily the best measures of what our students learned in class.

Yes, there are stupid questions

By Alfie Kohn

It can’t be repeated often enough: Standardized tests are very poor measures of the intellectual capabilities that matter most, and that’s true because of how they’re designed, not just because of how they’re used. Read the rest of the story here.

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