August 16, 2011 | Posted At: 09:57 AM | Author: john thompson | Category: John Thompson , NCLB News
Joy Resmovits of the Huffington Post summarizes a seemingly arcane debate about the causes of cheating on standardized tests in which consultant Gregory Cizek predicts that as?schools get used to being measured, "cheating will normalize and decline."? But behavioral economist Dan Ariely argues that "Cheating begets cheating. Once you cheat in some way, the next act of cheating is easier. We're not dealing with separate instances of cheating but we're dealing with things that have accumulated."??Given the spike of cheating after 10 to 15 years of high-stakes testing, the evidence seems to support Ariely.? The saddest thing, however,?would be for this bubble-in craze to be seen as "normal."-?JT (@drjohnthompson)Image via.
Source: http://scholasticadministrator.typepad.com/thisweekineducation/2011/08/thompson-normalizing-standardized-tests.html
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