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

by Arlo Kempf

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137486643
• ISBN13: 9781137486646
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"