Twitter Book Club: Deborah Meier (2002) In Schools We Trust - Part Two Chapter 6

Part Two: Testing and Trust

6. Why Tests Don't Test What We Think They Do

"the increasing use of standardized tests both undermines achievement and increases the distrust we have for teache... http://tl.gd/bgfdlpless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"What if—in addition —what is being measured on reading and math tests (or any of many other standardized achieveme... http://tl.gd/bgfj89less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"[IQ tests] depend upon a consensus about what is reasonably part of every testee's culture and prior understanding... http://tl.gd/bgfp0hless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Demanding that more kids get higher scores on standardized tests—be they IQ tests or achievement tests—is, under t... http://tl.gd/bgfu7kless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"By design, 50 percent of the students' scores will fall below the median—and 50 percent above." Meierless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Isn't it amazing that we have for nearly a half century been promoting a way of measuring school success with an i... http://tl.gd/bgg1o3less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"standardized tests are utterly counterproductive for the educational purpose of seeing what kids have learned in s... http://tl.gd/bgg2fdless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"These are tests designed to sort people, not to evaluate how well the teacher has taught or how well the students ... http://tl.gd/bggc66less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"Test reliability requires a fairly clear preconceived idea about who the good students are—those likely, all else ... http://tl.gd/bhnnmaless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"At any age, being outside the culture the test is designed to tap imposes a handicap." Meierless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"If all testees responded the same way, the question would be a bad item; if the 'wrong' people got it right, that ... http://tl.gd/bhnu1jless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"For children, as for adults, not knowing what others take for granted is embarrassing, and silencing." Meierless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"To organize schooling around tests is a blow to serious intellectual work; given that no particulars are likely to... http://tl.gd/bho657less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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"If the tests are bad indicators, it follows that the pedagogy and curriculum designed to raise scores are bad peda... http://tl.gd/bho9s4less than a minute ago via Twittelator

"To be well educated is to become more sensitive to the kind of data we ought to trust, to how much reliability we ... http://tl.gd/bhod1gless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Replyanderscj
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