{"product_id":"case-against-standardized-testing-raising-the-scores-ruining-the-schools-book-alfie-kohn-9783250032540","title":"The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools","description":"Our students are tested to an extent that is unprecedented in American history and unparalleled anywhere in the world. Politicians and businesspeople, determined to get tough with students and teachers, have increased the pressure to raise standardized test scores. Unfortunately, the effort to do so typically comes at the expense of more meaningful forms of learning. \u003cp\u003e That disturbing conclusion emerges from Alfie Kohn's devastating new indictment of standardized testing. Drawing from the latest research, he concisely explains just how little test results really tell us and just how harmful a test-driven curriculum can be. Written in a highly readable question-and-answer format, \u003ci\u003eThe Case Against Standardized Testing\u003c\/i\u003e will help readers respond to common questions and challenges-showing, for example, that: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ehigh scores often signify relatively superficial thinking \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emany of the leading tests were never intended to measure teaching or learning \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea school that improves its test results may well have lowered its standards to do so \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efar from helping to close the gap, the use of standardized testing is most damaging for low-income and minority students \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eas much as 90 percent of the variations in test scores among schools or states have nothing to do with the quality of instruction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efar more meaningful measures of student learning-or school quality-are available. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e Kohn's central message is that standardized tests are not like the weather, something to which we must resign ourselves. . . . They are not a force of nature but a force of politics-and political decisions can be questioned, challenged, and ultimately reversed. The final section demonstrates how teachers, parents, and students can turn their frustration into action and successfully turn back the testing juggernaut in order to create classrooms that focus on learning. \u003cp\u003e Also available on Audiotape: \u003ci\u003eThe Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools\u003c\/i\u003e, read by Alfie Kohn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50106123944209,"sku":"CIN0325003254G","price":3.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50276727980305,"sku":"CIN0325003254VG","price":3.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51797998338321,"sku":"GOR007218279","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0325003254.jpg?v=1751252590","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/case-against-standardized-testing-raising-the-scores-ruining-the-schools-book-alfie-kohn-9783250032540","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}