Undermining quality teaching and learning
- 25 June 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Theory and Research in Education
- Vol. 7 (2), 224-233
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1477878509104327
Abstract
Using tests to compare nations, states, school districts, schools, teachers, and students has increasingly become a basis for educational reform around the globe. Although tests can be informative, high-stakes testing (HST) is an approach to reform that applies rewards and sanctions contingent on test outcomes. Results of HST reforms indicate a plethora of unintended negative consequences, leading some to suggest that HST corrupts educational practices in schools. Although there are many accounts of these negative results, SDT supplies the only systematic theory of motivation that explains these effects. In what follows we describe the motivational principles underlying the undermining effects of HST on teachers and learners alike.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- A motivational model of rural students' intentions to persist in, versus drop out of, high school.Journal of Educational Psychology, 2003
- Motivation and Classroom ManagementPublished by Wiley ,2003
- Failing Our Kids: Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our SchoolsEnglish Journal, 2001
- Burnt at the High StakesJournal of Teacher Education, 2000
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New DirectionsContemporary Educational Psychology, 2000
- A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation.Psychological Bulletin, 1999
- Controlling teaching strategies: Undermining children's self-determination and performance.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1990
- Autonomy in children's learning: An experimental and individual difference investigation.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1987
- Effects of performance standards on teaching styles: Behavior of controlling teachers.Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
- Control and information in the intrapersonal sphere: An extension of cognitive evaluation theory.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1982