K12> A symposium on standardized testing

From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:21:06 -0600
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News bulletin from the Chronicle of Higher Education, 3.2.20
A glance at the winter issue of "Issues in Science and Technology":
A symposium on standardized testing

The issue includes a symposium on standardized testing in
schools that is based on a conference held last February by the
National Academies and the University of Texas at Dallas.

James W. Pellegrino, a professor of cognitive psychology and
education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discusses
the conclusions of "Knowing What Students Know," a study
conducted by a panel of the National Research Council. Mr.
Pellegrino, who is one of the authors of the study, argues that
developments in cognitive and measurement sciences must inform a
system of comprehensive student assessment. "The vision of an
assessment system designed to help students learn," he writes,
"will become reality only if we continue making research
progress, reform policies to allow innovation in testing, and
take the steps necessary to make changes in practice.

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Lorrie A. Shepard, dean of the School of Education at the
University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses the limits of
high-stakes testing, under which schools and educators are held
accountable for their students' test scores. She emphasizes the
dangers of "teaching to the test," and concludes that "to the
extent that evidence does exist from previous rounds of
high-stakes testing and extensive research on human motivation,
there is every reason to believe that these systems will do more
to harm the climate for teaching and learning than to help it."

The symposium is not online, but information about the journal
is available at http://www.nap.edu/issues/

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