Saturday, August 6, 2011

Article by John Thompson

From the article titled, "Why Test-Driven Accountability Is Grasping at Straws"

The Brookings report explained the damage caused by those errors, concluding that test-driven accountability could make teachers behave like dogs who were trained by electrical shocks. When the tests changed, dogs just laid there and waited for the pain to stop. The report then warned of similar "perverse incentives that may actually harm rather than help." 


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