http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/04/30/podcast55-high-stakes-testing-is-the-enemy/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:02:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/04/30/podcast55-high-stakes-testing-is-the-enemy/#comment-2836 The effect of ‘high-stakes’ testing on education at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk Tue, 02 May 2006 16:42:48 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=970#comment-2836 [...] Wesley Fryer’s blog Moving at the Speed of Creativity is a goldmine for educators, and I read it often. However, I’ve only just come across his excellent regular podcasts. A recent one, entitled High Stakes Testing is the Enemy, includes a lecture given by Dr. David Berliner in which he discusses the effect of high-stakes testing on American education. It’s a great lecture/talk and raises some important issues, most of them universal to Western education systems… [...] [...] Wesley Fryer’s blog Moving at the Speed of Creativity is a goldmine for educators, and I read it often. However, I’ve only just come across his excellent regular podcasts. A recent one, entitled High Stakes Testing is the Enemy, includes a lecture given by Dr. David Berliner in which he discusses the effect of high-stakes testing on American education. It’s a great lecture/talk and raises some important issues, most of them universal to Western education systems… [...]

]]> http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/04/30/podcast55-high-stakes-testing-is-the-enemy/#comment-2736 Brian Crosby Sun, 30 Apr 2006 07:27:11 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=970#comment-2736 http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=52 “…I am not against testing. Testing that helps evaluate where students are so you can make informed decisions on where to go next with them is just good teaching. But much of the testing we do is not well designed to do that and actually becomes counter-productive. Hence…” http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=52 “…I am not against testing. Testing that helps evaluate where students are so you can make informed decisions on where to go next with them is just good teaching. But much of the testing we do is not well designed to do that and actually becomes counter-productive. Hence…”

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