What pandemic-related test waiver requests suggest about states’ testing priorities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21369735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Bruno (0000-0003-2877-617X, Institute for Educational Leadership), Dan Goldhaber (0000-0003-4260-4040, American Institutes for Research) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 48-53 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phi Delta Kappan (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-7217 • E-ISSN: 1940-6487 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00317217211058525 |
| OpenAlex | W3211155371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
The COVID-19 pandemic heightened tensions around standardized testing policy and prompted the United States Department of Education to allow states to request waivers from federal standardized testing requirements. Paul Bruno and Dan Goldhaber describe the waivers that states requested and received, what they suggest about how state test results might be used for different purposes and by different people, and what uses of testing seem to be most salient to policy makers. They conclude with recommendations for policy makers about how to design testing policy that can both improve educational outcomes and maintain robust political support, objectives achieved at best imperfectly by existing testing policy
Actuarial science · Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Economics · Mathematics education · Pandemic · Policy analysis · Political science · Public economics · Public relations · Salient · Standardized test · State (computer science) · Test (biology) · Waiver · Computer Science · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Higher Education Learning Practices · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Public Administration · Student Assessment and Feedback
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |