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03503aam a2200433 i 4500 001 3ABBD4FAFC1D11E7842A9F4C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180118010011 008 170315t20172017ilua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017012607 020 $a 022640871X 020 $a 9780226408712 035 $a (OCoLC)973371694 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c CGU $d DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YUS $d GYG $d WLU $d OCLCQ $d OHI $d IGA $d GZM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a LB3051 $b .K668 2017 082 00 $a 371.260973 $2 23 100 1 $a Koretz, Daniel M. $e author. 245 14 $a The testing charade : $b pretending to make schools better / $c Daniel Koretz. 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2017. 300 $a viii, 275 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Beyond all reason -- What is a test? -- The evolution of test-based "reform" -- Campbell's law -- Score inflation -- Cheating -- Test prep -- Making up unrealistic targets -- Evaluating teachers -- Will the Common Core fix this? -- Did kids learn more? -- Nine principles for doing better -- Doing better -- Wrapping up. 520 $a For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on is that schools need to be held accountable - we need to know whether what they're doing is actually working. But what does it mean in practice? High-stakes tests. Lots of them. And that has created a crisis in American schools. Daniel Koretz, one of the nation's foremost experts on educational testing, argues in The Testing Charade that the whole idea of test-based accountability has failed - it has increasingly become an end in itself, harming students and corrupting the very ideals of teaching. In this powerful polemic, built on unimpeachable evidence and rooted in decades of experience with educational testing, Koretz calls out high-stakes testing as a sham that is ripe for manipulation and shows little evidence of leading to educational improvement. Rather than setting up incentives to divert instructional time to pointless test prep, he argues, we need to measure what matters, and measure it in multiple ways - not just via standardized tests. RIght now, we're lying to ourselves about whether our children are learning. And the longer we accept that lie, the more damage we do. It's time to end our blind reliance on high-stakes tests. With The Testing Charade, Daniel Koretz insists that we face the facts and change course, and he gives us a blueprint for doing better. -- from dust jacket. 650 0 $a Educational tests and measurements $z United States 650 0 $a Educational accountability $z United States. 650 7 $a Educational accountability $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00903326 650 7 $a Educational tests and measurements $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00903660 650 7 $a EDUCATION / Curricula. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement. $2 bisacsh 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 941 $a 3 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508022535.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20180426011443.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20180118010046.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3ABBD4FAFC1D11E7842A9F4C97128E48 994 $a Z0 $b HL6Initiate Another SILO Locator Search