Resources on Standardized Testing and its Alternatives
last updated July 2016
READ IT NOW
James Popham, F
for Assessment
more detail at: James Popham, The Truth About Testing. Read chapters 3 and 4 online by going to http://www.ascd.org Publications > Books > Browse
by Author
Don Arnstine, Democracy and the Arts of Schooling
In Will Standards Save Public Schools, Debbie Meier proposes six alternative assumptions to the high stakes testing agenda
Alfie Kohn's website
Craig Gordon, What Does "Privatization of Public Schools" Mean?
Howard Berlak, History of NCLB
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)
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
Don Arnstine's Democracy and the Arts of Schooling
OTHER RELEVANT RESOURCES (see also these links as well.)
Activism:
Susan Ohanian
National Center for Fair and Open
Testing (FairTEST)
See NCTE position statements
Research:
Stephen
Krashen
Joint Committee on Testing Practices
| C-5. Encourage test users to base decisions about test takers on multiple sources of appropriate information, not on a single test score. | C-5. Avoid using a single test score as the sole determinant of decisions about test takers. Interpret test scores in conjunction with other information about individuals. |
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
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