Burnt at the High Stakes

By A. Kohn. 2000

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Implementing Alternative Assessment: Opportunities and Obstacles (2007, background): “According to Kohn (2000), testing is particularly 222 • The Educational Forum • Volume 71 • Spring 2007 harmful to low-income and minority students.”
Undermining quality teaching and learning (2009, background): “…these expectations, studies have verified that undesirable behaviors are being reinforced under HST policies, from cheating at all levels of the school system (Kohn, 2000b; Nichols and Berliner, 2007) to more classrrom time spent ‘drilling’ test information to enhance scores (Jones et al., 2003).”
Addressing the Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education through Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (2005, background): “Like others, we are concerned that high stakes testing is affecting culturally and linguistically diverse schools in disproportionately negative ways (Hilliard, 2000; Kohn, 2000; Smith & Fey, 2000; Townsend, 2002; Valencia & Villarreal, 2003).”