MSTC – Commercialization, Proliferation, and Incoherence: The Triple Relics of IASA and NCLB Preventing the Implementation of Balanced Assessment Systems

This session will dive deeply into how commercialization of
assessment has contributed to a reduction in local capacity, how proliferation of assessment has created a backlash against an inherently meaningful part of instruction, and how incoherence of assessments have reduced the idea of an assessment system to a collection of products in the same way that a pile of bricks is not a house.