Answer: “In their book
Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America’s Schools” (3007)
Sharon L Nichols and David C. Berliner present a list of flawed arguments put
forward by NCLB (No Child Left Behind) supporters. We present some of them
here:
> “Students work harder and learn
more when they have to take high-stakes tests.
> “Students will be motivated to do
their best and score well on high-stakes tests.
> “Scoring well on high-stakes tests
leads to feeling of success by students, while doing poorly on such tests leads
to increased efforts to learn.
> “Students and teachers need
high-stakes tests to know what is important to teach and to learn.
> “Teachers need to be held
accountable through high-stakes tests to motivate them to teach better and to
push the lazy ones to work harder.
> “The high-stakes tests associated
with NCLB are good measures of the curricula taught in schools.
> “The high-stakes tests provide a
kind of level playing field, an equal opportunity for all students to demonstrate
their knowledge and skill.
> “Teachers use the results of
high-stakes tests to help provide better instruction to students. “
P, 94,
Comment: Are these assumptions true in your schools?
RayS.
Title: “Editorial:
Opening the Conversation: NCLB 10 Years Later.” Leslie S rush and Lisa Scherff.
English Education (January 2012), 91-101.
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