Testing In Our Schools
Thursday, May 25 2006
by Dave DeWitt and Frank Stasio
Multiple-choice tests are a way of life in North Carolina high schools, but what do these tests really measure? Does testing finally bring accountability to our long-failing education system? Or has the culture of standardized testing in our schools resulted in robotic students who can regurgitate facts but can't think creatively? Host Frank Stasio explores the science and the culture of testing with Greg Cizek, professor of Educational Measurement and Evaluation at the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Emily Hanford, senior editor of WUNC's expanded news series, North Carolina Voices: Studying High School; and Svi Shapiro, professor of Education and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the author of "Losing Heart: The Moral and Spiritual Mis-education of America's Children" (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/2005). Listener call-in. (40:00)
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