educational tests and measurements

"Most students would gladly stop taking tests, but is that really the best thing for them? Through ... main text, detailed fact boxes, ... photographs, and ... graphic organizers, readers are presented with opposing points of view on the importance of testing students. Readers are encouraged to use the information they discover to form their own opinions and back those opinions up with relevant facts."--Amazon.

Presents the notion that test-based accountability has failed educational improvement, harming students and corrupting the ideals of teaching.

Examines the problems in twenty-first century education systems in the United States, and discusses federal and state high-stakes testing, the No Child Left Behind act of 2001, and other related topics.

[This book offers the] support students' abilities to be strategic, metacognitive writers who use particular processes to achieve particular purpose as writers. Also helps studetns learn to use writing as a tool for learning across the day and throughout their richly literate lives -- p. 4.

"This book offers an assessment system that can be used across a district, school or classroom. Three intertwined Pre-K-6 learning progressions, one each in opinion, information, and narrative writing, are at the center of this systems. These learning progressions are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and to our knowledge of the teaching or writing, and they have been piloted, in conjunction with the other tools in this system, in tens of thousands of classrooms."--Page 2.

[This book] represents about six weeks of teaching, and within those six weeks, the unit supports several cycles of drafting, revision, and publication. The units align with the three types of writing specified in the Common Core State Standards -- p. 4.

Offers school administrators advice on how they can improve their students' performance on standardized tests and explains specific approaches that can be integrated into the curriculum.

Discusses the way the brain functions as children read, arguing for a move away from standardized-test-based education toward the cultivation of creative thinking.

Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.