As the new college admissions season begins, The Washington Post chimes in on what students should expect. The landscape is stabilizing. Vast majority of schools remain test optional or test free. FairTest provides data and some friendly advice. #CollegeAdmissions #TestOptional https://ow.ly/pxzl50WykA1
FairTest
Education
Brooklyn, New York 392 followers
We are an advocacy organization fighting against misuse of standardized tests and for better educational assessments.
About us
FairTest works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial. We are an advocacy organization that provides information and technical assistance to grassroots organization, federal, state and local policymakers, and media with the goal of changing assessment and accountability policy in K-12 education to be less reliant on standardized tests. FairTest promotes the use of authentic performance based assessment as a way of fostering deeper learning and critical thinking and creating equitable culturally responsive education practice. FairTest works toward the reduction and elimination of standardized tests as high stakes instruments. We have been instrumental in the movement away from using standardized testing in college and graduate admissions. Our encouragement of test optional and test free admissions policies has helped result in over 80% of four-year colleges adopting such policies.
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https://fairtest.org/
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- Industry
- Education
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Brooklyn, New York
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1985
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197 Prospect Pl
Brooklyn, New York 11238, US
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Great advice from Knowledgeworks for states wanting to genuinely improve their assessment and accountability systems, and not just use newly announced federal ESSA flexibility for the same old, same old (like chunking up annual testing into through years). #AccountabilitySystems #AssessmentInnovation #EducationPolicy https://ow.ly/eZe850WykUT
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Malta leads the way! School-based assessment aligns assessment with learning and not just a means to rank students. A fairer more in-depth method that enhances teachers' professional role. https://lnkd.in/eTwCRYJu
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In the age of AI it's even more important to change our education paradigm towards human interdependence and unique greatness of individuals and away from meritocracy used to justify standardized testing and college admissions. #HumanInterdependence #StandardizedTesting https://lnkd.in/eU7Q6dMA
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Brookings: Class and race in SAT/ACT scores not cured by test prep. Rich use test prep more but effects on scores modest. Extensive prep offers diminishing returns. Need to focus on actual gaps in education. Please read. #TestPrep #StandardizedTesting https://ow.ly/2jgj50WsKaS
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Malta leads the way! School-based assessment aligns assessment with learning and not just a means to rank students. A fairer more in-depth method that enhances teachers' professional role. https://lnkd.in/eTwCRYJu
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In the age of AI it's even more important to change our education paradigm towards human interdependence and unique greatness of individuals and away from meritocracy used to justify standardized testing and college admissions. #HumanInterdependence #StandardizedTesting https://lnkd.in/eU7Q6dMA
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Brookings: Class and race in SAT/ACT scores not cured by test prep. Rich use test prep more but effects on scores modest. Extensive prep offers diminishing returns. Need to focus on actual gaps in education. Please read. #TestPrep #StandardizedTesting https://ow.ly/2jgj50WsKaS
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Malta leads the way! School-based assessment aligns assessment with learning and not just a means to rank students. A fairer more in-depth method that enhances teachers' professional role. https://lnkd.in/eTwCRYJu
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In the age of AI it's even more important to change our education paradigm towards human interdependence and unique greatness of individuals and away from meritocracy used to justify standardized testing and college admissions. #HumanInterdependence #StandardizedTesting https://lnkd.in/eU7Q6dMA