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Closing The Door On Standardized Test Preparation And Opening The Door To Next Generation Literacy, Vicky Giouroukakis Ph.D., Maureen Connolly Ed.D.

Faculty Works: EDU (1995-2023)

These are the words of four graduate students who are excited about becoming English teachers as of September 2016. Notice anything about their reasons for teaching? No one mentions wanting to increase students’ test scores. We believe that you would be hard-pressed to find a teacher candidate or practicing teacher who chose this profession because of a passion for test preparation, but as teachers and students are facing mandated standardized assessments like PARCC, Smarter Balanced, the new SAT and ACT, as well as local measures to determine student growth, we are growing concerned that the level of importance placed on …