The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools.The Case Against Standardized Testing A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent" [1] : Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools by Alfie Kohn  This article or section is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article or section in an . Heinemann. 94 pages. $10.00 (paper). Alfie Kohn has warned about standardized testing since well before George W. Bush's initiatives. And he foresaw such embarrasments as when almost 6,000 New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. students were mistakenly sent to summer school due to a grading error on the part of a company that produced a test 300,000 of them took. His primary objection is not the tests' fallibility fal·li·ble adj. 1. Capable of making an error: Humans are only fallible. 2. Tending or likely to be erroneous: fallible hypotheses. but the inevitable tendency to "teach to the test," a phenomenon now so widespread that few even blink blink the involuntary movement of one or both eyelids of both eyes simultaneously. The frequency varies between species. Cats blink the least, with the possible exception of owls. In birds it is the lower eyelid which is moved up to meet the upper lid. an eye at educational materials with titles like Six Steps to SAT Success, or Test-Taking Strategies. What Kohn says standardized tests actually measure best is the economic backgrounds of the groups that take them: "Break down the test takers by income, measured in $10,000 increments, and without exception the scores rise with each jump in parents' earnings." The Case Against Standardized Testing is a handbook for everyone who doesn't like the testing trend but hasn't known what to do about it. |
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