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NEW SCHOOL YEAR: DOUBLING DOWN ON FAILED ED. POLICY Washington Post “The Answer Sheet” Blog — August 9, 2012 This was written by Lisa Guisbond, a policy analyst for the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, a Boston-based organization that aims to improve standardized testing practices and evaluations of students, teachers […]

Statement of the Problem Missouri NEA recognizes the need for ongoing comprehensive evaluation of student progress. However, high stakes decisions involving tracking, grade promotion, admission to dual-credit courses and graduation based on a single testing event present major educational and motivational challenges. Additionally, tests do not always measure what they purport to measure. Position While […]

Forum on Educational Accountability http://www.edaccountability.org for further information:Dr. Monty Neill (617) 477-9792 for use on or after Wednesday, February 19, 2014 NAT’L EDUCATION LEADERS PROPOSE PRINCIPLES FOR CONGRESSIONAL COMPROMISE ON “NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND” REPLACEMENT The Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) today called on members of Congress to adopt a compromise to address disagreements between […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing FairTest Examiner – July 2007 The upcoming reauthorization of ESEA/NCLB will almost certainly expand state options to use “growth or “value added” testing models. Tracking student learning across the grades certainly makes sense. But the current “growth” models all use no more than standardized test scores as the measurement tool. […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing Two recent studies report striking evidence that exit exams decrease high school completion rates, increase GED test taking, and exacerbate inequalities in educational attainment. One paper concludes tests cause a two percent increase in the dropout rate, which could mean more than 40,000 students per year nationally are denied a […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing Using data released by state education officials reporting measurement error built into the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) exams, Virginia parents announced that “half a million of the state’s SOL tests have misclassified students as failing when they shouldn’t have or passing when they shouldn’t have.” In testing terms, these […]

Happy New Yearto the thousands of readers of FairTest’s weekly assessment reform news clips. With this first issue of 2018, we want to remind you that previous editions are archived athttps://fairtest.orgdata.com.org/news/other. Friends, allies and other interested people may sign up for a free subscription by clicking onhttps://fairtest.orgdata.com.org/weekly-news-signup NationalBig Blows Struck Against Testing Overuse in 2018http://neatoday.org/2018/01/04/educators-strike-big-blow-to-the-overuse-of-standardized-testing/National […]

Standardized exams are a central focus of this week’s news with the release of another COVID-era round of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores as well as the U.S. Supreme Court hearing on challenges to affirmative action in which plaintiffs appear to contend falsely that “test scores measure merit.”  The proper role of test […]

Standardized testing policies, particularly at the K-12 level, are generally developed by elected officials or their appointees. The seven weeks remaining before Election Day on November 8 should present many opportunities to press candidates to reveal their positions on critical assessment reform issues.  Do they support even more testing or a rollback of standardized exam […]