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International Comparisons More Fizzle than Fizz
By Gerald Bracey, The Huffington Post, December, 2008
"First, comparing nations on average scores is a pretty silly idea. It's like ranking runners based on average shoe size or evaluating the high school football team on the basis of how fast the average senior can run the 40-yard dash. Not much link to reality. What is likely much more important is how many high performers you have."
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Testing One, Two, Three, Four ... Sixteen?
By Emily Alpert
"Teacher Michele Janette felt like the tests would never end. Her 3rd graders at Benchley-Weinberger Elementary had taken seven tests by early November, one after the next, none of which counted towards their grades. They were supposed to help Janette tailor her teaching, but Janette felt they were crippling her.
To plead her case to San Diego Unified leaders, she lugged a foot-long bin of papers and two binders to a school board meeting. All the tests for the entire year used to fit into those two binders, she said, but this year they overflowed from the binders into the bin in just seven weeks."
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2008/11/14/news/01tests111408.txt
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Exposing the Myths of High Stakes Testing
"Over the recent decade, conversations in education have been dominated by the topic of test scores. Standardized tests are currently lauded as “the answer” to school accountability, higher student achievement, and improved teacher quality. Claims of “objective measures,” and “scientific evaluations” promise to “fix” our schools and improve learning for children once and for all. Most realize the absurdity of this “guarantee” yet they are consoled by the claim ‘scientifically researched’ - however dubious. The standardized testing fib unquestioned and unchallenged imposes serious and lasting consequences for our schools and our children."
Angela Engel
http://angelaengel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=5
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Who's Kidding Whom?
By Richard L.
The next generation of tests will be lie detector tests to check who’s cheating on tests!
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