| Another superintendent distressed by Ohio's testing rage: Tom Dunn's column in the February 22 The Troy Daily News should be requires reading for state officials. "How much of a bad thing is a good thing?"by Tom Dunn.there is no debating that properly used student assessments, otherwise known as tests, are a staple in an excellent classroom. Assessments, particularly those implemented in a way that provides immediate feedback, can help drive instruction, because the results can clearly show the teacher what his or her students know and don't know. That teacher can then use this information to develop follow-up lessons to address those weaknesses ... and kids actually learn what they didn't know before. There is also no debating that there are too many state-mandated tests, that the results from these tests are constantly used inappropriately, that the results, even if meaningful, are so long in coming back to schools that they lose their worth, and that this inappropriate use is dictated by lawmakers who apparently don't know the first thing about how students are educated or how to use test data appropriately. Worse, they apparently don't want to learn given the fact that there is plenty of scientific research that refutes their claim that student test results should be used to evaluate teachers, schools, and districts....more the truth about testing ... |
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