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What Noam Chomsky Said About The Danger Of Standardized and High Stakes Testing

In recent years, the issue of assessment and testing has sparked the interest of many educators. A plethora of research have been highly pre-occupied with assessment and testing, (Crooks, 1988; Black & William, 1998; Torrance & Pryor, 2001; Black & William, 2004; Nicol & Macfarlane-dick, 2005; Ruiz-Primo & Furtak, 2006; Buck & Trauth-Nare, 2009; Volante […]

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Compelling Reasons Why Summative Assessments Are Left Behind

Summative Assessments Even though summative assessments are still perceived by many educators, teachers, and administrators to be reliable tools to measure students’ learning, recent research shows strong empirically-based evidence that the use of summative assessments leads to washback (Black & Wiliam, 1998b; Harlen & Deakin, 2002). For those of you who hear the term washback

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The Danger of School Assessment: Voicing Students’ Concerns and Trepidations

Educationalists, teachers and other stakeholders have recently started to question the quality of classroom assessment in terms of its impact on students’ learning and creativity. The issue of assessment impact or what is referred to by other specialists as ‘’Washback‘’ has been a very indispensible concern to many educators in the educational realm. This is

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