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Reimagining the Classroom
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Reimagining the Classroom

by Theodore Richards
December 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Jossey-Bass
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Chapter 9Unstandardized Testing: From Classroom to World

Among the more problematic trends in education in recent decades is the rise of high‐stakes testing. It's not that testing, even standardized testing, doesn't have a purpose. A test can show us some things about what's working or not working in our schools or for an individual student. But when a test is used as the primary measure of success and failure, it causes several problems.

High‐stakes testing, or tests that determine a child's or school's prospects, are inherently unjust. A test is always a limited measure and a score can indicate many things other than the capabilities of the student.

Oddly, standardized tests are used to measure classrooms or schools but are an inherently ...

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