Testing+and+teachers

Issues

 * Testing interferes with teachers teaching
 * Testing distorts the profession
 * Testing is abused to provide false evaluations of teachers
 * Testing demeans the role of teachers as teaching professionals
 * Testing distorts the curriculum

For more on the use of standardized tests to evaluate teacher performance, see the Value Added Measures page on this wiki.

For a good summary of the problems with using high-stakes tests for evaluating teachers, see "Neither Fair Nor Accurate: Research-Based Reasons Why High-Stakes Tests Should Not Be Used to Evaluate Teachers" by Wayne Au, from the Winter 2010-11 issue of //Rethinking Schools//

//"... findings illustrate that using tests to evaluate teaches ignores the reality that a host of individual daily factors that are completely out of a teachers control contributes to how a student performs on any given test."//

Read the Chicago Teachers Union position paper on teacher evaluation, Promotion Quality Instruction: Teacher Evaluation or Teacher Collaboration? (PDF).