13: Examining standardized testing
The Psychology Podcast
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Award-winning education writer Anya Kamentez provides practical guidance for parents looking to understand standardized testing. She and Scott roll up their sleeves and delve deep into the nature, origins, drawbacks and future of our high-stakes testing culture. The dialogue spans varying topics including broadening our educational priorities, holding schools accountable, implementing better assessments and helping children beat the system.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, |
| 0:04.0 | where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. |
| 0:08.0 | Each episode will feature a new guest who will stimulate your mind |
| 0:11.0 | and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in. |
| 0:15.0 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. Oh, Today I'm really excited to have Anya Kalmanets on the show. Anya is a columnist for Tribune |
| 0:40.3 | Media Services and Elite Education Blogger NPR. Her most recent book, which we'll |
| 0:45.0 | be chatting quite a bit about today, is called The Test. Why our schools are obsessed with |
| 0:50.0 | standardized testing, but you don't have to be. |
| 0:52.7 | Thank you so much on you for being on the show. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm so glad to connect with you, Scott. |
| 0:57.6 | Yay. |
| 0:58.7 | So I was wondering, you know, I'm very curious |
| 1:01.5 | why you wrote this book but in researching |
| 1:04.5 | uh... you're talking about this book and and stuff i've noticed there's an |
| 1:07.1 | interesting backstory in the sense that the book that you originally |
| 1:10.4 | saw out to write was not the book that you wrote. Is that correct? |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, basically, yeah. So, you know, I had written a previous book, DIYU, which was all |
| 1:20.8 | about innovations in higher ed and you know it's a disruptive |
| 1:25.8 | story because there's a lot of change happening in the higher ed world and I |
| 1:29.6 | really wanted to kind of make a continuation of that story and talk about kind of disruptive |
| 1:34.4 | change in evolution and in K-12 education but what I found was there were so many |
| 1:39.9 | more roadblocks to kind of system-wide change in the K-12 universe, particularly in the public |
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