Testes de alto impacto (high stakes tests) são avaliações que produzem consequências para professores, diretores e estudantes. Usualmente estão associados a prêmios ou punições.
Os Estados Unidos aplicaram esta política dos reformadores empresariais à exaustão. Dentro desta, o papel dos testes de alto impacto ocupa centralidade – alimenta a meritocracia e a accountability. O que é uma febre naquele país, parece que está sendo revisto.
A lista de manifestações contra estes testes na última semana, organizada pelo FairTest, foi divulgada pelo Blog de Valerie Strauss e, segundo ela:
“… é particularmente interessante, mostrando crescente conscientização por educadores e pais em mais de 15 estados sobre o problema do excesso de testes, bem como novas medidas para conter o número e a importância dos testes. Na última semana, vimos a nova legislação introduzida no Congresso para reduzir a obrigatoriedade de testes federais, resoluções de conselho escolar pedindo suspensão de testes de alto impacto, mais líderes educacionais pedindo a reforma dos testes, e muito mais.”
Aqui está a lista da semana.
Arizona
Another Test is Not Best Strategy to Help Arizona Students Learn Civics
California
Future of California High School Exit Exam Undecided
Colorado
Why My Kids Will Opt Out: Colorado’s State-Mandated Tests Do Not Support Learning
Colorado Teacher Refuses to Administer Common Core Tests (aqui e aqui)
Florida
11 Large Florida School Boards Agree: “Suspend High-Stakes Testing”
One of Nation’s Biggest School Districts Calls on State, Feds to End Testing Overkill
Broward County Florida Schools Could Be Required to Administer 1,500 New End-of-
Course Tests Editorial: Too Much Testing in Florida Florida PTA Calls for Overhaul of State Testing System
Georgia
Georgia Ed Superintendent Candidates Agree: Too Much Testing
Iowa
Iowa Letter to the Editor: Time to End NCLB
Kansas
Feds Allow Kansas to Withhold Scores From Disrupted Exam Administrations
Massachusetts
Worcester Massachusetts Teachers Call For Three-Year Moratorium on Common Core Testsn
New Mexico
Santa Fe School Chief Seeks Delay in New Mexico Test-Based Teacher Evaluation
New York
New York Assessment Reform Activists Say 250,000 Will Boycott 2014-2015 State Tests
State Claims More Money Needed to Release Additional Test Questions
Ohio
Local Ohio School Board Seeks Delay of Test-Based Teacher Evaluations
Oklahoma
Oklahoma School Grades Don’t Reflect Student Progress
Rhode Island
Rhode Island to Hold Hearings on Longer Exit Exam Delay
Utah
Inconsistent Utah Test Standards Don’t Help Improve Education
Virginia
Virginia Replaces Five Statewide Tests With Local Assessment Flexibility
Washington
Washington State Schools Are Not Failing, NCLB Is Failing Us — Petition Campaign
Other Pieces:
Congressional Proposal Would Put Brakes on Federal Testing Mandates
Most Americans Don’t Support Rating Teachers on Student Test Scores: New Survey
Yong Zhao Dissects Marc Tucker’s “Plan to Fix Our National Accountability System”
Linda Darling Hammond on Equity, Diversity and Deeper Learning
A Message From a Teacher Thinking About Quitting About the Real Impacts of Testing Overkill
Luiz Carlos de Freitas
