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HOW STANDARDIZED TESTING DAMAGES EDUCATION How do schools use standardized tests? The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era has seen an unprecedented expansion of standardized testing and test misuse. Despite ample evidence of the flaws, biases and inaccuracies of standardized exams, NCLB and related state and federal policies, such as Race to the Top (RTTT) […]

High-Stakes Test-Based Accountability Policies: Problems and Pitfalls Anne Wheelock In 1993, the Massachusetts Board of Education approved a policy advisory for circulation to all school districts in Massachusetts. Entitled “School Account-ability and Indicator Systems: Implications for Policy Making in Massachusetts,” the policy advisory presented research on accountability policies and standards-based reform. Among other findings, this […]

for further information: Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 mobile (239) 699-0468 for immediate release Thursday, June 6, 2019 GLOBAL SAT SUBJECT TEST SECURITY BREACH LAST WEEKEND; SCORES COMPROMISED BY ADVANCE CIRCULATION OF EXAM; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALSO POSTED ON REDDIT WEB SITE MANY HOURS BEFORE ADMINISTRATIONS BEGAN IN U.S. Last weekend’s SAT Biology Subject Test was […]

for further information: Dr. Monty Neill (617) 477-9792 Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 for immediate release, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 STATEMENT OF NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAIR & OPEN TESTING (FAIRTEST) ON FEDERAL STANDARDIZED EXAM MANDATES As Washington, DC awaits President Obama’s Tuesday evening State of the Union speech and the Wednesday morning U.S. Senate hearing on […]

NOTE: for a PDF formatted version of this fact sheet click here) Independent researchers have found that evaluating and paying teachers for test scores is either damaging or irrelevant to improved learning.* Unfortunately, even evidence of harm does not seem to affect the growing popularity of such schemes. Policymakers, including U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, […]

for further information: Dr. Monty Neill (617) 477-9792 Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 for immediate release Monday, January 14, 2013 NATIONAL ASSESSMENT REFORM LEADERS ENDORSESEATTLE TEACHERS’ SCHOOL TEST BOYCOTT;CALL FOR MORE EDUCATORS, PARENTS TO “JOIN IN” The country’s leading testing reform organization today announced its support for the boycott of Seattle Public Schools’ Measures of Academic […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing The explosion of standardize exams required by No Child Left Behind has strained the capacity of the testing industry to its limits and beyond. Recently reported errors affected students in Illinois, Ohio, Hawaii, Arizona, New York, Georgia and Connecticut. As with the recent SAT scoring fiasco, errors are rarely caught […]

Supporters of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law use many arguments to defend the controversial law. The strongest-sounding arguments have little to do with the law’s actual provisions, while others are simply false. We have prepared this fact sheet to help people reply to the various claims made in defense of NCLB; sort, […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-16 Testing Over the past few years, accountability issues have surfaced in higher education, much as they did in the 1980s in K-12 public schooling. Chris Gallagher argues that many of the people who brought high-stakes standardized testing to prominence as the key accountability ‘reform’ in public schools are behind the current […]

The following excerpt is from the opening chapter of STANDARDIZED MINDS: THE HIGH PRICE OF AMERICA’S TESTING CULTURE AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO CHANGE IT by Peter Sacks. (Perseus Books, Cambridge, Mass., February 2000). Most Americans take standardized mental tests as a rite of passage from the day they enter kindergarten. Gatekeepers of America’s […]