High stakes testing that doesn’t make sense
April 28, 2013
Pull quotes:
“Consider the recent history of high stakes testing in the state of Washington. We spent more than a decade and a billion dollars on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) only to find that the test was deeply flawed…..”
“The truth is that as long as we try to force every kid through a one size fits all system we will never see improvement. No other country in the world is running an education system on the pretense that all students are the same and as long as we pursue that folly we will continue to waste precious resources and fall further behind our competitors.”
Read the commentary by Bob Dean. Bob Dean is a math teacher in Vancouver, Washington. He was on the State Board of Education Math Advisory Panel working as a member of the OSPI Standards Revision Team, and has served as department head of Evergreen High School.
Pull quotes:
“Consider the recent history of high stakes testing in the state of Washington. We spent more than a decade and a billion dollars on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) only to find that the test was deeply flawed…..”
“The truth is that as long as we try to force every kid through a one size fits all system we will never see improvement. No other country in the world is running an education system on the pretense that all students are the same and as long as we pursue that folly we will continue to waste precious resources and fall further behind our competitors.”
Read the commentary by Bob Dean. Bob Dean is a math teacher in Vancouver, Washington. He was on the State Board of Education Math Advisory Panel working as a member of the OSPI Standards Revision Team, and has served as department head of Evergreen High School.