The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools
Alfie Kohn; Lois Bridges [Editor]
Language: English
Published by Heinemann, 2000
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- Title
- The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools
- Author
- Alfie Kohn; Lois Bridges [Editor]
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0325003254
- ISBN 13
- 9780325003252
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- 2 ounces
That disturbing conclusion emerges from Alfie Kohn's devastating new indictment of standardized testing. Drawing from the latest research, he concisely explains just how little test results really tell us and just how harmful a test-driven curriculum can be. Written in a highly readable question-and-answer format, The Case Against Standardized Testing will help readers respond to common questions and challenges―showing, for example, that:
- high scores often signify relatively superficial thinking
- many of the leading tests were never intended to measure teaching or learning
- a school that improves its test results may well have lowered its standards to do so
- far from helping to "close the gap," the use of standardized testing is most damaging for low-income and minority students
- as much as 90 percent of the variations in test scores among schools or states have nothing to do with the quality of instruction
- far more meaningful measures of student learning―or school quality―are available.
Also available on Audiotape: The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools, read by Alfie Kohn.
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About the Author
Alfie Kohn was recently described by Time magazine as "perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores." He is the author of 13 books on education and human behavior, including The Schools Our Children Deserve, The Case Against Standardized Testing, and The Homework Myth. A former teacher, Kohn now works with educators across the country and speaks regularly at national conferences. He lives (actually) in Belmont, Mass. and (virtually) at www.alfiekohn.org.
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