It goes “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” How does that work in practice?
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Schools do standardized testing every year. Good, fine.
Schools decide to give raises and promotions to teachers whose students do better in standardized testing.
Teachers are incentivized to get the dummies kicked out of class, to spend time with the ones deemed salvageable and ignore the others, to cheat on the standardized testing, to ignoring anything not on the standardized tests, to avoid any ESL students, to avoid underperforming districts, and so on.
Yeah, now standardized testing may now be a net negative.
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