How Much Testing Is Too Much?

Jon Chait notes that opponents of using standardized tests to measure teacher quality are often exaggerating the extent to which anyone is proposing to rely on such tests: Different states have different ways of measuring teacher performance. But none of them use student test scores as more than 50% of the measure (PDF). Classroom evaluations [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/07/02/259973/how-much-testing-is-too-much/

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