An Alternative to High Stakes Testing. Facebook Stats - A More Effective Accountability Measure
Earlier this week I was reading a provocative thread in response to a terrific post from Joe Bowers on the topic of accountability in my Innovative Learning Consortium group on Facebook. Deborah Meier weighed in suggesting folks set up high stakes testing sites near state capitols, post testing times, publish which politician showed up and who didn't, then publish THEIR scores in the paper.
Awesome!
As I was fretting about the problem of accountability gone wrong and worthless high stakes tests, a notice came up informing me there were lots of other people that went to the same high school as I did. There was a link I could click on if I wanted to friend these people. With accountability on the mind, I clicked on the link and