The Pedagogy of Standardized Testing : The Radical Impacts of Educational Standardization in the US and Canada

Centering the voices of Los Angeles, Chicago, Ontario, and New York teachers in one of the largest comparative studies of its kind, this book illustrates the ways increased use of standardized testing is fundamentally changing education in the US and Canada, with a negative overall impact on the way teachers teach and students learn. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-12 The School as Factory Farm: All Testing All the Time....Pages 13-28 The History, Logic, and Push for Standardized Testing....Pages 29-50 Testing at the Tipping Point: HSST as a Governing Education Principle In and Out of the Classroom....Pages 51-69 Revising the Pedagogical Form: Test-Oriented Teaching and Learning....Pages 71-97 Not What I Signed up for: The Changing Meaning of Being a Teacher....Pages 99-127 A Lack of Accountability: Teacher Perspectives on Equity, Accuracy, and Standardized Testing....Pages 129-159 Implications: Synthesis of Findings, Resistance, and Alternatives....Pages 161-192 Back Matter....Pages 193-240 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