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Some legislators are mulling how to postpone some of the tests' consequences for students.
The November results from the first statewide assessments based on the common core, in Kentucky, where proficiency rates dropped by a third or more, have made lawmakers alert to the tests' consequences.
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Oregon and Massachusetts NEA affiliates called for three-year moratoria on all testing consequences to allow time to overhaul state assessment systems.
In his study, published next month in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer-reviewed journal, Mr. Carnoy and a colleague, Susanna Loeb, examined whether states with serious test consequences did better on a nationwide math assessment than their counterparts bearing none at all.
Concern about testing consequences was not a major barrier.
This demonstrates that test consequences can be unintended and unforeseen.
Additionally, test-taking processes and strategies and test consequences were ignored.
To better understand both the scope and mechanism of test consequences, Pan Pann: Consequences of test use: Educational and societal effects of English certification exit requirements in Taiwan, Unpublished) combined Bachman and Palmer's concept of micro and macro test effects, Bailey's (1996) basic model of washback, and Hughes's backwash model (1993) to create the model depicted in Fig. 1.
Messick (1989) mentioned some important points such as misuse of the test, social consequences of tests, and test fairness.
While the effort to allow medical students to take two years of course work on a pass-fail basis was driven by an effort to make the notoriously difficult life of medical students easier, the high-stakes testing consequence creates problems of its own.
However, the test consequence should be investigated further.
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