Survey Shows State Testing Alters Instructional Practices
Teachers are changing what and how they teach in response to state testing programs, preliminary results from a multistate survey have found. Those changes are greatest in states where more consequences are attached to test results, according to the two-year study by researchers at Boston College's National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy.
Joseph Pedulla, an associate professor of education at the college and a member of the study team, said the nationally representative survey of 12,000 teachers was "the broadest survey of teachers of this scope on this topic that has been done."
Tentative results from the study were issued here this month at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. The full report is scheduled to...
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