Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform

by Herbert J. Walberg

Overview

The author draws on scientific studies of tests and their uses to show how standardized achievement tests must play a central role in improving achievement in K-12 schools. He explains the central considerations in developing and evaluating tests and tells how tests can best be best used, covering such topics as using tests for student incentives, paying teachers for performance, and using tests in efforts to attain new state and national standards.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817913540
Publisher:	Hoover Institution Press
Publication date:	05/01/2011
Series:	HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION Series
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Herbert J. Walberg is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a project investigator at the Vanderbilt University National Center on School Choice. Renowned throughout the world for his expertise on education policy and practice, he has written and edited more than sixty-five books and has written some 350 articles on education and exceptional human accomplishments.