Put enough pressure on teachers to get high scores...
Convince parents that high test scores are the ultimate achievement...
Push children to grade grub their way to high scores...
... and you can be assured that many people will achieve these high scores, but you won't want to know how they did it.
This is Campbell's Law.
This is but one more reason why standardized test scores are like a broken clock. The costs of standardized testing is strangling the intellectual life out of our classrooms.
Convince parents that high test scores are the ultimate achievement...
Push children to grade grub their way to high scores...
... and you can be assured that many people will achieve these high scores, but you won't want to know how they did it.
This is Campbell's Law.
This is but one more reason why standardized test scores are like a broken clock. The costs of standardized testing is strangling the intellectual life out of our classrooms.
