📑 Mesmerised by measurement

Bookmarked 'We must kill this cult of measuring everything that schools do' (Tes)

The idea that the solution to the nefarious effects of constant high-stakes measurement is to bring in more high-stakes measurement – albeit of a different thing – is palpably insane. It is further evidence, if we needed any, that we have surrendered our profession to a cultish scientism whose mantra is measurement.

JT Dutaut wonders about a future where the solution to too much testing in education is more testing.