Overtested
Subtitle: How high-stakes accountability fails English language learners
By: Jessica Zacher Pandya ; foreword by Robert Rueda
Series: Language and literacy series
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780807752470; 9780807752487
Subjects: Language and languages; Foreign speakers; Study and teaching; Ability testing; Education; Critical pedagogy; English language
Description: This timely book explores what is often overlooked in policy debates about the education of English language learners: how the day-to-day dynamics of the classroom are affected by high-stakes testing and the pressures students and teachers experience and internalize as a result. The author presents and analyzes classroom observations, student work, and test scores, as well as interviews with students and teachers. A disturbing picture of today's overtested public school classroom emerges from the events and practices described in this book. While hard to believe, all the depictions presented took place in a real elementary school classroom and reflect the current culture of extreme accountability. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.