December 7, 2015 | Posted At: 11:08 AM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: (Who Cares What) Research Says , Teachers, Teaching, Unions , The Business Of Education
Quotes: PISA Data Suggests US Kids Not Tested More
U.S. teachers don’t write their own tests as often as teachers do in other nations. And U.S. students aren’t graded on their writing or projects as often as students elsewhere. In Finland, by contrast, student portfolios are frequently evaluated.
- Hechinger Report's Jill Barshay (Education myth: American students are over-tested)
Evaluating projects and portfolios is not standardized testing.
Posted by: CarolineSF | December 07, 2015 at 21:36 PM
Also, a post from a Los Angeles Unified teacher on Facebook: "The next four days will be useless. Have to prep the kids for a benchmark assessment whose results will go to the Mayor's Partnership L.A. Schools... but the results won't be used to evaluate anybody. They're just collecting data..."
Happening in other nations? Really?
Posted by: CarolineSF | December 08, 2015 at 10:01 AM