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
Manufacturer The University of Chicago Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2022-12-22
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	The University of Chicago Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2022-12-22
Format	Kindle eBook

The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better

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