Alfie Kohn on Nostr: The more you know about what raises scores on standardized tests, the less likely ...

The more you know about what raises scores on standardized tests, the less likely you'd be to celebrate a high score or fret about a low one. Today's 1st example (via Linda McNeil): "unteaching" in order to dumb kids down for the test.

You'll also be disillusioned if you attend to how tests are constructed: https://is.gd/hg6NyD.

Keep both in mind when you read, say, extended lamentations about "learning loss" that equate learning with test scores (& never bother to defend that assumption).