Do Standardized Tests Reflect Student Learning in Schools?

"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." -Albert Einstein "What is tested does count, but much of what counts cannot be tested." -Student Learning, Student Achievement Report Task Force Many teachers quote Albert Einstein when describing the challenges and frustrations they feel towards standardized testing and its impact on their classrooms. Teachers often explain how testing narrows the curriculum, limits the variety of student learning opportunities, emphasizes basic skills, and fails to measure higher level thinking such as creativity. Teachers feel that they help students learn so much more than what ...
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