Education Week Blog 2014

Education Week Blog 2014

Madhabi Chatterji, AERI's director, and James Harvey, executive director of the National Superintendents Roundtable, co-facilitated a 10-week blog in March-June, 2014, titled, "Assessing the Assessments: K-12 Measurement and Accountability in the 21st century". To read the individual blog that interests you, please see the table below for contributors and blog topics.

Let's Mend, Not End, Educational Testing
Validity, Test Use, and Consequences: Pre-empting a Persistent Problem
Response to ‘Validity, Test Use, and Consequences: Pre-empting a Persistent Problem
Can We Trust Assessment Results?
Assessing School Success Comprehensively
Five Myths about International Large-Scale Assessments
Have You Seen this Headline?
International Scores Irrelevant to Economic Competitiveness
OECD: Poverty Explains 46% of PISA Scores
Measurement Science Can Do More for Education!
K-12 Assessments are More Art than Science
Honestly Prioritizing Assessment Design for Instruction
Duct Tape Won’t Fix Formative Assessments
Mimic the Classroom
Back to the Future in International Assessments
Catnip for Politicians: International Assessments
Merits of International Assessments
Wasting the Lessons of Assessment History
Learning from the Reform Mistakes of the Past
Memo to Washington: ‘Physician, Heal Thyself!’
Let’s Expand What Formative Assessment Means
Formative Assessment in the Real World
What do PISA and TIMSS Tell Us?
On Assessment: Less is More
Are Fourth Graders who Don’t Test Like Seventh Graders Really Failures?
Formative Classroom Assessment and Assessment for Accountability: Finding a Balance
Correcting a Harmful Misuse of Students’ Test Scores
Mortality, Validity, and the Design of Instructionally Sensitive Tests
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