Vol. 4 Issue 2. – Article: How Should We Measure Student Learning? The Many Forms of Assessment

ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#2 | January 9, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036

EDUTOPIA has posted an article titled “How Should We Measure Student Learning? The Many Forms of Assessment”.

EDUTOPIA Staff says, “Assessment is at the heart of education: Teachers and parents use test scores to gauge a student’s academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their educational system, and state and federal lawmakers use these same metrics to determine whether public schools are up to scratch.

Testing forms the bedrock of educational assessment and represents a commitment to high academic standards and school accountability. You can’t know where you’re going unless you know where you are. But when the financial and emotional stakes associated with standardized tests are disproportionately high, this laudable goal gets distorted”.

How Should We Measure Student Learning? The Many Forms of Assessment