Tests and Testing Links

I’ve been collecting articles for reference in a file and thought it would be a good idea to put them out there to share so here you go!

• “What I Did in June” by Diane Ravitch
• 12th Grade NAEP Scores Are Meaningless
• A Better Way to Assess Students and Evaluate Schools
• A Dark Day For Educational Measurement In The Sunshine State
• A Letter to Arne Duncan
• A letter to Secretary Arne Duncan
• A Pause in Testing Madness
• A rare break from testing madness
• A Serious Design Flaw Is Suspected in State Tests
• A teacher pushed to the edge
• A True Wake-up Call for Arne Duncan: The Real Reason Behind Chinese Students Top PISA Performance
• Against Evaluating Massachusetts Teachers Using Student Test Scores
• Assessments of Schools Are Flawed, Report Says
• Atlanta Starts New School Year Under Cloud of Cheating Scandal
• Ay, caramba! Foreign language versions of school exams riddled with errors
• “Tell us a secret” – another creepy test question
• Bloggers Challenge President on Standardized Testing
• Britain: Nearly half of schools to boycott SATs as teachers rebel
• Broad’s Deborah Gist Out to Make Teacher Certification Decisions in RI Based on Test Scores
• Christie misses the mark on grading teachers, author says
• Confession of a cheating teacher
• Cornering the education market
• Cramming for kindergarten tests
• Critical thinking: what the ruling class fears most
• Current Test-Based Incentive Programs Have Not Consistently Raised Student Achievement in U.S
• Diane Ravitch: The Great Accountability Hoax
• Don’t rush to link teacher evaluation to student achievement
• Don’t Romanticize Testing in China
• Educating for Democracy: A Split in the Teachers Unions
• Education Reform in the Wrong Direction: High-Stake Consequences for New York State Teachers and Their Students
• English teacher: Data can drive us down wrong road
• Failed tests
• Fair Test: Opting Out
• Guest Commentary: Everything they didn’t tell you about CSAP Read more: Guest Commentary: Everything they didn’t tell you about CSAP – The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_17692326#ixzz1IWxoHmvk Read The Denver Post’s Terms
• Halt standardized tests, elementary teachers say
• Has Ontario taught its high-school students not to think?
• Head Banging
• High Tech Testing on the Way: a 21st Century Boondoggle?
• High Test Scores, Low Ability
• Hurdles Emerge in Rising Effort to Rate Teachers
• If Lady Gaga Can be Useful…
• In R.I. schools, October dominated by standardized testing
• In Texas, a revolt brews against standardized testing
• Is Overemphasis On Testing Hurting Schools?
• John Kuhn: Why Shouldn’t Teachers Be Graded, Too?
• Judging teacher performance is difficult, experts say
• Knoxville Parent Vows to Fight Use of State Test Scores to Determine Student Grades and Placements
• LA teacher suicide sparks test-score pushback
• LETTER TO SECRETARY OF EDUCATION ARNE DUNCAN CONCERNING EVALUATION OF TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS
• Many Wrong Choices Do Not Make Pay For Test Scores Any More Right
• Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the Data
• Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the Data
• Montana Just Says No to More Impossible Testing Targets
• Montana Just Says No to More Testing Insanity
• Mother hopes others will opt out of standardized testing
• Nearly half of schools to boycott SATs as teachers rebel
• Newspaper Flunks State Test
• No Value Added: The Mismeasurement of Teaching Quality
• None of the above? Colorado could ditch more school tests, joining national trend
• NY Parents Crazed to Land Gifted Kindergarten Seats
• NYC releases teachers’ value-added scores — unfortunately
• Obama Knows Best, Part One: How Should we Assess Learning?
• On education policy, Obama is like Bush
• On New York School Tests, Warning Signs Ignored
• Our schools exam system is no longer fit for purpose
• Panel Finds Few Learning Gains From Testing Movement
• Problems with the use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers
• Q&A: What teachers and parents should make of The Times’ rankings
• Racial Justice and Standardized Educational Testing
• Report: Students learned only math, reading
• Reported test cheating tripled under Bloomberg
• Research Warning Label: Analysis contains inadequate measurement of student poverty
• RESOLUTION CONCERNING HIGH STAKES, STANDARDIZED TESTING OF TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS
• Review of Learning About Teaching
• Rhee’s problem with D.C.’s new test scores
• School Accountability and Teacher Mobility
• School report cards, millions in bonuses, undermined by ‘phony’ test scores on state exams
• Seventeen Percent of Kindergarten Kids Redshirted
• Shortcomings of Standardized Testing
• Standardized Testing and the Flight to Homeschooling
• Standards Raised, More Students Fail Tests
• State English tests dissed deaf students: educators
• State Officials Throw Out Another Pearson Test Question
• States Where Parents Oppose Teaching to the Test
• Study: Error rates high when student test scores used to evaluate teachers
• Survey: N.C. Teachers Say High-Stakes Tests Dominate Classes
• Tainted Paint in the PISA Picture?
• Teacher Accountability? It’s About Time!
• Teacher Evaluations Based on Test Scores Will Requires Dozens of New Tests
• Teachers
• Teachers of the Year: “Change NCLB”
• Test boycott in Great Britain successful… Infamous ‘league tables’ rendered meaningless
• Test scores don’t mean that much
• Testing and miseducation
• Texas schools chief calls testing obsession a ‘perversion’
• The Atlanta Scandal: Teaching in “A Culture of Fear, Intimidation and Retaliation”
• The complete list of problems with high-stakes standardized tests
• The LA Times: Practicing Educational Research without a License
• The Lone STAAR Rebellion
• The New York Principal’s APPR Paper
• The President’s Radical Comments on Testing
• The Real Cheating Scandal of Standardized Tests
• The Shock of Accountability in Florida
• The standardized testing dilemma
• The Test Generation
• The Testing Mess
• Too Much Testing
• Welcome to The Opt Out of Standardized Tests Site!
• What international test scores really tell us: Lessons buried in PISA report
• What Test Scores Don’t Tell Us: The Naked Emperor
• When standardized test scores soared in D.C., were the gains real?
• Whoever Said There’s No Such Thing As a Stupid Question Never Looked Carefully at a Standardized Test
• Why can’t students opt out of PASS?
• Why I Will Not Teach to the Test
• Why NY’s test mess is far from over
• Will National Standards Become the Operating System for our Schools?
• Yes, they’ve done it! Three stupid DC-CAS questions out of three!
• Yong Zhao on testing and the cheating in the Altlanta school district