How to combine learning, assessment, accountability

05-21-2010

Guest blog by Lisa Guisbond and Monty Neill/Washington Post

Lisa Guisbond and Monty Neill are with the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, a non-profit organization that works to end the flaws and misuse of standardized testing.

Politicians sometimes trot out this homespun expression to show they understand how frustrated many students, parents and teachers are about the way the current fixation on standardized testing crowds out time for deeper learning. It’s a great irony of the current accountability movement that policies like No Child Left Behind starve our children of time to think, create and learn in order to measure them with simplistic tests. In FairTest’s previous Answer Sheet guest blog, we described a way to weigh and fatten the pig at the same time. The idea is to replace standardized testing as the main measure, the tool that rules school, with classroom-based measures of student growth. (more...)

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