Overlooked Problems With Standardized Tests
Marion Brady | | 
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America is in love with the idea of "accountability," with measuring how much students know of what a school teaches. But that isn't really what's important. It's a second level of functioning which should concern us--what the young can DO with what they know.
But there's an even MORE important third level of functioning--what students do when they don't know what to do . . .
. . . and a critically important FOURTH level--what students do when nobody knows what to do.
Because the future is unknowable, our survival as a society hinges on students being able to function at this fourth level, but we're so preoccupied with the first "how-much-does-the-kid-know" level we're ignoring it completely.
