The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better

The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better

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For decades weâ€™ve been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and thereâ€™s still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that schools need to be held accountableâ€”we need to know whether what theyâ€™re doing is actually working. But what does that mean in practice?

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High-stakes tests. Lots of them. And that has become a major problem. Daniel Koretz, one of the nationâ€™s foremost experts on educational testing, argues in The Testing Charade that the whole idea of test-based accountability has failedâ€”it has increasingly become an end in itself, harming students and corrupting the very ideals of teaching. In this powerful polemic, built on unimpeachable evidence and rooted in decades of experience with educational testing, Koretz calls out high-stakes testing as a sham, a false idol that is ripe for manipulation and shows little evidence of leading to educational improvement. Rather than setting up incentives to divert instructional time to pointless test prep, he argues, we need to measure what matters, and measure it in multiple waysâ€”not just via standardized tests.

Right now, weâ€™re lying to ourselves about whether our children are learning. And the longer we accept that lie, the more damage we do. Itâ€™s time to end our blind reliance on high-stakes tests. With The Testing Charade, Daniel Koretz insists that we face the facts and change course, and he gives us a blueprint for doing better.

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Country	USA
Author	Daniel Koretz
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9780226408859
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of Chicago Press
Manufacturer	University of Chicago Press
NumberOfPages	288
PublicationDate	2017-08-31
Publisher	University of Chicago Press
ReleaseDate	2017-08-31
Studio	University of Chicago Press

The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better

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