MythBusters, Standardized Testing Edition! 5/19
Save Our Schools Teach-in #8: Standardized Testing Mythbusters!
Thursday, May 19, at 8:30 pm Eastern time, 5:30 pm Pacific time, please join us for the eighth of our teach-ins, featuring Bruce Smith and Phillip and Joan Harris, authors of a new book that pulls back the curtain on standardized tests.
Their book considers common ideas like the following:
Fact or Myth: Students’ knowledge and skills can be assessed by the limited sample of content included in a forty-five question test.
Fact or Myth: High student test scores at any particular school are a good reason to assume that school has high student achievement.
Fact or Myth: Punishing or rewarding schools, teachers, or students based on