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Uninvited Comments from an Uninvited Guest. Section 4: Grading the Policymakers' Solution.
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Berliner, David C. – Educational Researcher, 1996
Addresses the notion promoted by businesses that the American educational system is a failure. Explains that United States productivity is still the highest in the world in all areas of economic importance. Suggests that while politicians and industrial leaders criticize the educational system, their policies and actions undermine public education…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement
The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators through High-Stakes Testing. Executive Summary
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Nichols, Sharon L.; Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This research provides lengthy proof of a principle of social science known as Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." Applying…
Descriptors: Cheating, Dropouts, High Stakes Tests, Social Indicators
The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators through High-Stakes Testing
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Nichols, Sharon L.; Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This research provides lengthy proof of a principle of social science known as Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." Applying…
Descriptors: Cheating, Dropouts, High Stakes Tests, Social Indicators