Resources on Standardized Testing and its Alternatives
last updated May 27, 2007
READ IT NOW
In Will Standards Save Public Schools, Debbie Meier proposes six alternative assumptions to the high stakes testing agenda
Craig Gordon, What Does "Privatization of Public Schools" Mean?
Howard Berlak, A Testing Bill of Rights
Howard Berlak, From Local Control to Government and Corporate Takeover of School Curriculum: The No Child Left Behind Act and the ëReading Firstí program.
Harold Berlak, Does the No Child Left Behind Act and State Testing Mandates Improve Schools and Increase Educational Opportunity?
Harold Berlak A People's Guide to High-Stakes Testing in California 2006-7 (pdf file)
James Popham, The Truth About Testing. You can read 3 chapters online by going to http://www.ascd.org Publications > Books > Browse by Author
James Popham, F for Assessment
Educational Testing Service, Using Student Progress to Evaluate Teachers: A Primer on Value-Added Models (cautions about over-reliance on test-results)
LynNell Hancock , How Are the Kids? Reporters need to look INSIDE the classroom!!!!
Nel Noddings, Thinking About Standards in Phi Delta Kappan , November 1997, pp. 184-189.
Reading and Tests: Grade Equivalent v Grade Level. Brief discussion on ca-resisters listserv.
GET THE FOLLOWING!
Deborah Meier, Will
Standards Save Public Schools
In Standards, Meier proposes six
alternative assumptions to the high stakes testing agenda
OTHER RELEVANT RESOURCES (see also these links as well.)
Activism:
Educator Roundtable
Susan Ohanian
California Coalition for
Authentic Reform in Education (CalCARE)
National Center for Fair and Open
Testing (FairTEST)
See NCTE position statements
on Assessment and Testing: Home >
About NCTE > Overview > Our Positions > Positions by Category >
Assessment & Testing > Article:11887
Research:
Stephen
Krashen
Open Court
Joint Committee on Testing
Practices
Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development Home >
Publications > Newsletters > Infobrief > Archived Issues, High-Stakes
Accountability Strategies: What Do We Know
About Sanctions and Rewards? October 2002, Issue
Number 31, By Heather Voke
Alternative Assessment:
Performance
Assessment
The Learning
Record
Authentic Curriculum:
Nantional
Council of Teachers of English
Project 2061 (science)
Radical Math
Interactive Mathematics Program
The Algebra Project