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These 2 audiocassettes feature the author, Alfie Kohn reading his newly published book from Heinemann. The Case Against Standardized Testing will help readers respond to common questions and challenges - showing for example, that:
- High scores often signify relatively superficial thinking
- Many of the leading tests were never intended to measure teaching or learning
- A school that improves its test results may well have lowered its standards to do so
- Far from helping to "close the gap," the use of standardized testing is most damaging for low-income and minority students
- As much as 90% of the variations in test scores among schools or states have nothing to do with the quality of instruction
- Far more meaningful measures of student learning - or school quality - are available
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