Benchmark Testing

Assessment Opinion Education Research: Reflections on the 'Gold Standard'
Continuing his series on education research, Marc Tucker argues that the United States should use industrial benchmarking to learn about the characteristics of effective education systems.
Marc Tucker, August 13, 2014
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6 min read
Assessment Opinion Pasi Sahlberg on Finland's Recent PISA Results
Marc Tucker interviews Pasi Sahlberg about Finland's fall in the rankings on the 2012 PISA.
Marc Tucker, February 14, 2014
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5 min read
International Opinion Shanghai: Teacher Quality Strategies
A look at how Shanghai is able to both produce high quality beginning teachers at low cost and continuously improve the skills of teachers already in the workforce, leading not only to impressive performance on PISA but better student outcomes overall.
Marc Tucker, January 30, 2014
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5 min read
Assessment Opinion Tom Loveless on Hukou in China
Marc Tucker explains that while China's policies regarding migrant students are problematic, these are slowly being changed. In the meantime, Shanghai's education system still has much to teach the rest of the world.
Marc Tucker, January 24, 2014
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5 min read
College & Workforce Readiness Opinion PISA Denial: Another Flavor
Marc Tucker refutes critics of PISA who claim that we can ignore the poor performance of US students because the test doesn't measure the things that really matter.
Marc Tucker, January 10, 2014
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5 min read
Student Achievement Opinion Response to the Brookings Institution Attack on PISA
Marc Tucker and Andreas Schleicher respond to charges from Tom Loveless that the PISA results for Shanghai are suspect.
Marc Tucker, December 26, 2013
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9 min read
Accountability Opinion The Meaning of PISA
Marc Tucker explains how the results of the latest PISA assessment ought to inform America's education policy reform agenda: we should be basing it on the strategies employed by the top performing education systems in the world.
Marc Tucker, December 5, 2013
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5 min read
Accountability Opinion Leading Educational Change: International Perspectives
Helen Janc Malone closes the International Perspectives on Education Reform Blog with a call for collective action and a comprehensive approach to educational change.
International Perspectives on Education Reform Group, November 1, 2013
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5 min read
Accountability Opinion The Finnish Paradox
Pasi Sahlberg explores a central role play has inside and outside the school context as a foundation for positive child development.
International Perspectives on Education Reform Group, October 31, 2013
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3 min read
Accountability Opinion Tensions and Paradoxes in Singapore's Education System
Pak Tee Ng discusses how two secondary education admission policy changes are raising questions about fair assessments and holistic education. As Ng states, "On one hand, we send signals to broaden the definition of success. On the other hand, we may have inadvertently set up more areas for competition." As he further explains, "education reform is seldom, if ever, merely an education issue. It is deeply entwined with societal culture... The debate is a process of national soul searching about what education really means to us as a society."
International Perspectives on Education Reform Group, October 30, 2013
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4 min read
Accountability Opinion Whole System Change
Helen Janc Malone introduces the final blog week with a theme "whole system change."
International Perspectives on Education Reform Group, October 27, 2013
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2 min read
Assessment Opinion NAEP-TIMSS Linking Study: How Well Are We Really Doing?
Marc Tucker questions the results from a recent NCES study linking NAEP and TIMSS scores.
Marc Tucker, October 25, 2013
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3 min read
Assessment Opinion From Schooling to Learning in India: How Can We Take Everyone Along?
Rukmini Banerji and Madhav Chavan offer a compelling case for the use of literacy and numeracy assessments as tools to understand progress and gaps in student learning in India.
International Perspectives on Education Reform Group, October 24, 2013
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5 min read
Assessment Opinion The Price of Standardized Testing in Russia
Elena Lenskaya offers a sobering lesson in the unintended consequences of standardized testing--teaching to the test and learning to the test.
International Perspectives on Education Reform Group, October 23, 2013
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2 min read
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