The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators through High-Stakes Testing

I can't say enough good things about this recent study by my colleague, Professor David Berliner (Arizona State University) and his co-author, Professor Sharon L. Nichols (UT—San Antonio).

The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators through High-Stakes Testing

It provides excellent workable analogies on the harmful effects of high-stakes-anything across wide-ranging arenas like medicine, industry, police enforcement, sports, academia in order to make the strong and convincing claim why high-stakes testing in education is bad policy for kids and bad for schools.

It provides an enormous amount of evidence on the collateral effects of high-stakes testing. And it's written in accessible language that newspaper reporters and the public in general can understand.

Read their piece—long but actually a quick read and share it with everyone you know.

Angela