What’s the Value of Student Testing?
March 30, 2015
In all of the talk about testing students and holding schools, teachers, and principals accountable for their performance, one question commonly surfaces: Does the current testing regime work? This was recently debated in the New York Times. And in a broader examination, Issues presented the results of a major study—mostly disappointing—of how much standardized testing drives improvement in student learning and whether it can serve as a broad-based evaluation tool.