The Pedagogy of Standardized Testing

The Radical Impacts of Educational Standardization in the US and Canada

Arlo Kempf

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781349577132
  9781137486646
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137486653
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

Based on a large-scale international study of teachers in Los Angeles, Chicago, Ontario, and New York, this book illustrates the ways increased use of high-stakes standardized testing is fundamentally changing education in the US and Canada with a negative overall impact on the way teachers teach and students learn. Standardized testing makes understanding students' strengths and weaknesses more difficult, and class time spent on testing consumes scarce time and attention needed to support the success of all students—further disadvantaging ELLs, students with exceptionalities, low income, and racially minoritized students.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 The School as Factory Farm: All Testing All the Time
• 2 The History, Logic, and Push for Standardized Testing
• 3 Testing at the Tipping Point: HSST as a Governing Education Principle In and Out of the Classroom
• 4 Revising the Pedagogical Form: Test-Oriented Teaching and Learning
• 5 Not What I Signed up for: The Changing Meaning of Being a Teacher
• 6 A Lack of Accountability: Teacher Perspectives on Equity, Accuracy, and Standardized Testing
• 7 Implications: Synthesis of Findings, Resistance, and Alternatives
• Appendix: A Note on the Survey
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index