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Gordon shows how we can use assessment to support teaching and develop students' competencies. Between 2011 and 2013, Gordon chaired an interdisciplinary commission of scholars and thinkers, who connected transformative research and ideas on learning, teaching, measurement, the nature of tests, intelligence, capability, technology, and policy.

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Gordon and Rajagopalan offer a cogent and compelling analysis of educational testing today and tomorrow. They show how over-emphasis on accountability has distorted teaching and learning, how educational goals are changing, and how emergent technologies can enable fundamentally different kinds of assessments to truly support the development of all students to their fullest potential. Once in a great while, a book is written that simply must be read. This is such a book. - Edward Haertel, Jacks Family Professor Emeritus of Education, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, USA In The Testing and Learning Revolution, Gordon and Rajagopalan and their contributors brilliantly remind us of a time when the three major components of an educational system teaching, learning, and assessment were the primary responsibility of educators, not politicians or the federal government. - Gerunda B. Hughes, Professor and Director, Office of Institutional Assessment and Evaluation, Office of the Provost, Howard University, USA

Gordon and Rajagopalan offer a cogent and compelling analysis of educational testing today and tomorrow. They show how over-emphasis on accountability has distorted teaching and learning, how educational goals are changing, and how emergent technologies can enable fundamentally different kinds of assessments to truly support the development of all students to their fullest potential. Once in a great while, a book is written that simply must be read. This is such a book. - Edward Haertel, Jacks Family Professor Emeritus of Education, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, USA In The Testing and Learning Revolution, Gordon and Rajagopalan and their contributors brilliantly remind us of a time when the three major components of an educational system teaching, learning, and assessment were the primary responsibility of educators, not politicians or the federal government. - Gerunda B. Hughes, Professor and Director, Office of Institutional Assessment and Evaluation, Office of the Provost, Howard University, USA

The book may present new ideas of testing and learning to a broad US-based audience of educational stakeholders. Scholars with an interest in pedagogy and educational testing in the US may also find the book informative. ... Gordon's book provides an insightful discussion of the myriad of considerations for valid and reliable large-scale testing, particularly when questioning whether the assessment practices of today are appropriate for building learning to meet the societal demands of tomorrow. (Anna Fletcher, Studies in Continuing Education, September, 2017)

Gordon and Rajagopalan offer a cogent and compelling analysis of educational testing today and tomorrow. They show how over-emphasis on accountability has distorted teaching and learning, how educational goals are changing, and how emergent technologies can enable fundamentally different kinds of assessments to truly support the development of all students to their fullest potential. Once in a great while, a book is written that simply must be read. This is such a book. - Edward Haertel, Jacks Family Professor Emeritus of Education, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, USA In The Testing and Learning Revolution, Gordon and Rajagopalan and their contributors brilliantly remind us of a time when the three major components of an educational system-teaching, learning, and assessment-were the primary responsibility of educators, not politicians or the federal government. - Gerunda B. Hughes, Professor and Director, Office of Institutional Assessment and Evaluation, Office of the Provost, Howard University, USA

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Edmund W. Gordon is John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at Yale University, USA.   Richard March Hoe Professor, Emeritus of Psychology and Education, at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, and Director Emeritus of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME) at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.   Kavitha Rajagopalan has worked with Dr. Gordon for six years, supporting him in the preparation of a wide range of publications. She is a writer and policy analyst, specializing in global migration and social cohesion in diverse societies.

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