Common Sense Questions about Tests

The Answers Can Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement

By (author) Gerard Giordano

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Publication date:

07 March 2016

Length of book:

182 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475821499

Parents had questions about the tests their children took at school. They considered them to be common sense questions. They posed them to the businesspeople, publishers, and politicians who championed tests. They also posed them to the school administrators, teachers, and union leaders who criticized them. This book examines the questions the parents posed, the answers they elicited, and the changes they prodded.

Preface: Who Needs Another Book about Tests?Foreword: (by Raymond P. Lorion, Ph.D.)Chapter 1: Why Ask Common Sense Questions about Tests?Chapter 2: Why Give Straightforward Answers to Questions about Tests?Chapter 3: Why Give Bad-Faith Advice about Tests?Chapter 5: How Much Blame Do Teachers Deserve for Low Test Scores?Chapter 6: Do Educators Game Tests?Chapter 7: What Do Students Expect from Tests?Chapter 8: What Do Business Leaders Want from Tests?Chapter 9: How Does Technology Affect Test Scores?Chapter 10: Do Testing Enthusiasts Mask their Motives?References

The volume is not propaganda and does not lay out the path to true and right. It does not try to make up people’s minds but rather tries to open them to what lies ahead. It invites readers to consider the questions that have been raised about tests and carefully judge the answers that have been provided. (From the Foreword)