Ed Roeber, Director of Assessment for the Council of Chief State School Officers in Washington, DC, explains his belief that assessment results are not handled properly in America's schools today. Excerpted from the audiotape series Policy Talks, audiotape #2, Reaching for New Goals and Standards: The Role of Testing in Educational Reform Policy (NCREL, 1994).
"But I think, unfortunately, policy makers like teachers don't understand assessment. Most of the people involved in collecting the information and trying to score it, trying to figure out what the heck it means and report it, have had no training in assessment."
Date posted: 1995