High-stakes testing cheats children out of a quality education | Get Schooled - 0 views
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“The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”
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“[W]hen test scores become the goal of the teaching process, they both lose their value as indicators of educational status and distort the educational process in undesirable ways.”
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New requirements to assess teachers based on their students’ scores, in particular, virtually guarantee even more cheating will take place.
