Not exact matches
However you
feel about them,
standardized tests are integral to public education.
Success in education is often measured by a
standardized test, but there arent any
tests designed to measure how students
feel about themselves after being actively involved in a program like this.
If our reporting on statehouse conversations
about what academic standards Indiana will use next have
felt pretty abstract, try on this possible consequence of pausing Common Core rollout in Indiana: Tucked into the Office of Management and Budget report state lawmakers will discuss Tuesday is the possibility students could have to take two
standardized tests in 2015.
Asked
about the «increased focus on
standardized testing and data in public schools over the past decade,» 33 percent
feels that it has «had little effect,» while 36 percent believes it has «actually done more harm than good.»
But in hindsight, considering the backlash from Congress and from parents upset
about standardized testing, and looking at what the American Educational Research Association and the American Statistical Association and the National Research Council have said
about the problems of using value - added models to make personnel decisions... do you
feel like those were the right big bets?
«The
standardized testing industry is basically a for - profit endeavor with a long, well - documented history of fuck - ups that is completely unregulated, so you should trust it only if you
feel good
about trusting big businesses being run entirely on the honor system,» he concluded in an interview.