Standardized Testing and Accountability

For each reading, you should prepare for class in the following way: 1. Attempt to summarize the author’s main point(s) in a sentence or two. 2. Identify specific terms, concepts, or passages that you found either confusing or interesting and enlightening (in other words, what would you like to bring up as a point of clarification or discussion). 3. Provide a reaction or two to the reading: What do you like or dislike about it? Agree or disagree with? How can you relate it to your experience?

guide questions dont need to answer：According to Schleicher, what have been some of the major impacts of PISA on educational policy, both nationally and internationally? Do you feel, like Schleicher, that these have been positive changes?

What reasons does Rutkowski et al give in the other two articles for taking the results of PISA a bit more cautiously? As per the main question in one of the articles: “Should individual US schools participate in PISA?” What value do mass standardized tests such as these have?