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The Case Against Standardized Testing : Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools
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The Case Against Standardized Testing : Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools Paperback - 2000

by Kohn, Alfie

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  • Title The Case Against Standardized Testing : Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools
  • Author Kohn, Alfie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 104
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH
  • Date September 1, 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4709162-20
  • ISBN 9780325003252 / 0325003254
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.36 x 5.66 x 0.26 in (21.23 x 14.38 x 0.66 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Educational tests and measurements - United, Achievement tests - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00057245
  • Dewey Decimal Code 371.262

From the publisher

Our students are tested to an extent that is unprecedented in American history and unparalleled anywhere in the world. Politicians and businesspeople, determined to get tough with students and teachers, have increased the pressure to raise standardized test scores. Unfortunately, the effort to do so typically comes at the expense of more meaningful forms of learning.

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.
Kohn's central message is that standardized tests are "not like the weather, something to which we must resign ourselves. . . . They are not a force of nature but a force of politics--and political decisions can be questioned, challenged, and ultimately reversed." The final section demonstrates how teachers, parents, and students can turn their frustration into action and successfully turn back the testing juggernaut in order to create classrooms that focus on learning.

Also available on Audiotape: The Case Against Standardized Testing Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools, read by Alfie Kohn.

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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