High Stakes testing and our kids: international research leaves Australian developments in question
A new report, released today (1 February 2012) by the Whitlam Institute within the University of Western Sydney, canvasses the existing research on ‘high stakes’ testing. It finds that despite ‘high stakes’ testing of Australian primary and high school students becoming more and more entrenched, there are serious concerns internationally about the impact the tests have on students.
The literature review ‘The Experience of Education: The impacts of high stakes testing on school students and their families’ by Professor John Polesel, Ms Nicky Dulfer and Dr Malcolm Turnbull, was commissioned by the Whitlam Institute to provide context for a new research project on High Stakes Testing which is a collaboration between the Whitlam Institute, the University of Melbourne and the Foundation for Young Australians.
