SAT, AP, ACT, ERB...you name it. Standardized assessments still abound in independent school culture. We become obsessed with higher and higher SAT and ACT scores, touting our averages to families; and, when they're not as high as we'd like, we obsess about how 'low' they are. We worry, we fret, we bite our nails. We wonder if our standards are slipping.
How ought we to assess in this, the second decade of the 21st century?
Standardized tests were born in a culture that was focused on the 'benefits' of industrialization: uniformity, standardization, predictability. With all the research we have at our disposal now--brain science, different intelligences, you name it--we continue to hone in on some of these tests and measure ourselves very diligently against them.
Is anyone out there working on a portfolio of assessments? What's that look like?
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