cost effective testing

[Peter Farruggio <pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu>]

Another number crunching finding in favor of even MORE benchmark 
testing.  Learning and critical thinking?  Huh????

Disgusting!



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> The Cost-Effectiveness of Comprehensive School Reform and Rapid Assessment
> Stuart S. Yeh
> University of Minnesota
>
> Yeh, S. S. (2008). The cost-effectiveness of comprehensive school reform
> and rapid assessment. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 16(13). Retrieved
> [date] from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v16n13/.
>
> Abstract
>
> Analysis of the cost-effectiveness of 29 Comprehensive School Reform (CSR)
> models suggests that all 29 models are less cost-effective than an
> alternative approach for raising student achievement, involving rapid
> assessment systems that test students 2 to 5 times per week in math and
> reading and provide rapid feedback of the results to students and teachers.
> Results suggest that reading and math achievement could increase
> approximately one order of magnitude greater for every dollar invested in
> rapid assessment rather than CSR. The results also suggest that reading and
> math achievement could increase two orders of magnitude for every dollar
> invested in rapid assessment rather than class size reduction and three
> orders of magnitude for every dollar invested in rapid assessment rather
> than high quality preschool.
> Keywords: comprehensive school reform; formative evaluation; cost
> effectiveness; reading; math