03157cam a22003854i 4500 113226 113226 19572599 BJBSDDR 20230411090141.0 130919s2017 ilu b 001 0 eng c 2017012607 022640871X 9780226408712 (cloth : alk. paper) ICU/DLC spa ICU rda DLC eng pcc n-us--- LB 3051 K84t 2017 371.260973 23 Koretz, Daniel M., 1949- 7971 The testing charade : pretending to make schools better / Daniel Koretz. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2017] viii, 275 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Incluye referencias bibliográficas e indice. Beyond all reason -- What is a test? -- The evolution of test-based "reform" -- Campbell's law -- Score inflation -- Cheating -- Test prep -- Making up unrealistic targets -- Evaluating teachers -- Will the Common Core fix this? -- Did kids learn more? -- Nine principles for doing better -- Doing better -- Wrapping up. For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on is that schools need to be held accountable - we need to know whether what they're doing is actually working. But what does it mean in practice? High-stakes tests. Lots of them. And that has created a crisis in American schools. Daniel Koretz, one of the nation's foremost experts on educational testing, argues in The Testing Charade that the whole idea of test-based accountability has failed - it has increasingly become an end in itself, harming students and corrupting the very ideals of teaching. In this powerful polemic, built on unimpeachable evidence and rooted in decades of experience with educational testing, Koretz calls out high-stakes testing as a sham that is ripe for manipulation and shows little evidence of leading to educational improvement. Rather than setting up incentives to divert instructional time to pointless test prep, he argues, we need to measure what matters, and measure it in multiple ways - not just via standardized tests. RIght now, we're lying to ourselves about whether our children are learning. And the longer we accept that lie, the more damage we do. It's time to end our blind reliance on high-stakes tests. With The Testing Charade, Daniel Koretz insists that we face the facts and change course, and he gives us a blueprint for doing better. Educational tests and measurements United States. Mediciones y pruebas educativas Estados Unidos 1692 Educational accountability United States. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2019-09-13 0 LB 3051 K84t 2017 00000124387 2019-09-13 00:00:00 1 2023-04-11 BK