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New Research Reviewed in Forbes Magazine
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024Great to see my latest article with co-author Jamil Maroun on predicting Algebra 1 standardized test scores picked up by @Forbes magazine: https://lnkd.in/epB3W953 Standardized tests are not measuring student learning or their potential to learn. The results can be predicted …
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Support More Teaching and Less Testing
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023Christopher Tienken and Julie Borst Large-scale annual standardized testing has been federal public school policy for over 20 years. During that time billions of dollars of taxpayer monies have been spent to design, purchase, administer, and score the various tests …
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Academic Redlining
Thursday, May 4th, 2023Findings from AASA’s “The American Superintendent: 2020 Decennial Study” suggest that superintendents are more often the ones leading discussions about educational equity in their school communities. But educational equity also was found to be one of tasks that superintendents engaged in the …
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Shelving Standardized Tests
Sunday, February 14th, 2021In previous writings I detailed some of the issues associated with using results from state standardized tests and most other commercial standardized testing products to draw conclusions about student learning, teacher effectiveness, and the overall quality of schools. In this …
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Testimony on Standardized Testing
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019May 14, 2019 New Jersey Joint Committee on the Public Schools Comments on State Assessments, Equity, and Accountability Submitted by Christopher H. Tienken, EdD Associate Professor of Education Leadership, Management, and Policy Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ Good morning …
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PISA is Coming! And It Does Not Matter
Tuesday, November 15th, 2016Sound the alarm bells! The results from the international PISA test are coming! The public education sky will fall once again in December 2016 with the release of the results from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). As …
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Students Are Partners-Not Clients
Sunday, August 14th, 2016Much of the school reform marketing revolves around the idea of treating parents and students like consumers: “Students and parents are our clients” is a rallying cry heard throughout the education-reform market. One underlying tenet of treating students and parents …
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Don’t Be Fooled: Complexity Versus
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016Complexity Versus Difficulty: Don’t Be Fooled The vendors and supporters of the Common Core State Standards claim that the Standards require greater emphasis on higher-order thinking than previous state standards in mathematics and English language arts. But what is …
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Common Core Complexity
Saturday, November 7th, 2015The Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics have been advertised by their vendors, the National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), as being superior to previous …
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Predictable Results
Thursday, May 7th, 2015Colleagues and I used US Census data to predict state test results in mathematics and language arts as part of various research projects we have been conducting over the last three years. Specifically, we predicted the percentage of students at …
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Publications
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Cracking the Code of Education Reform: Creative Compliance and Ethical Leadership
Christopher Tienken, professor and international speaker, shares his insights on how to identify both positive and negative aspects of education reform to maximize the benefits for students. This book introduces a practical framework for interpreting educational reform within an evidence-based …
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The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fear, Myths, and Lies
The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fear, Myths, and Lies peels back the curtain of school reform to examine the tensions that exist between the democratic and equitable system of public education and the emerging dual system based on elite interests aimed at profit-making and decreasing education equity.
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