Life Under High Stakes Testing in Mathematics Classrooms:.

In 2005 the author immersed himself in the life of two Vancouver-area high schools (one public, one private) during in-depth case studies of the personal, pedagogical, and professional responses of teachers and principals to the high stakes BC Provincial Examination Program. This book documents the power of high stakes testing to warp a once world-renowned educational system and push teachers and principals to the limit as they balance the testing stakes with the true meaning of education.

Dr. Glen MacPherson is a K-University educator across many subjects, former principal, clinician in mathematics diagnosis and remediation, staff inservicing, conference presentation, and field-based quantitative and qualitative research. He teaches in BC public schools and at the University of British Columbia at the Faculty of Education.