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...bill also gives states the crucial task of defining "proficiency": what score do students need to pass the tests? If the bar is set too low, the legislation will be meaningless. But there's also a risk in demanding too much. Warns Dan Koretz, a Harvard education professor who specializes in high-stakes assessments: "If the bar is set too high, it becomes impossible to meet by legitimate ends. There will be enormous pressure to take short cuts. You'll see a dangerous over-emphasis on test preparation and cheating...
...Koretz says officials must take into account outside influences when they evaluate test scores—or they may not be able to improve the district, even with good teachers...
This interface between policy, testing and student achievement is one of the attractions to the discipline, according to Koretz...
Although he has been working at the RAND Institute and the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing recently, Koretz says he was attracted to GSE for its educational aspect...
Although he has not officially received his teaching assignments, Koretz says he hopes to teach two larger survey courses and several smaller and more advanced seminars. The survey courses will focus on the quantitative and non-quantitative measurements of student achievement, while the seminars will be more policy-oriented...