Mastery continues to be emphasized over teaching for the test/answer

Professor Anderman's book had close to 2 dozen points where he accentuated this point, as related to motivation.
TNTP referred to research results to the effect that even when teachers try to teach to the test regarding literacy, the results show the efforts to have been ineffective anyway.
Professor Glassman's book weighs in on this subject as well. "The Internet promotes a third type of intelligence", in addition to the open discovery of youth, just exploring any idea floating past, and the hardened knowledge of adulthood. This third type is not a search for an answer, it is an attempt to expand understanding, by taking chances and getting big leaps of aha-type moments(my words, not his).
Cole's book makes it clear that these tests just prove which kids are most accustomed to the context in which the questions are framed.
No theory of learning has any connection to supporting the testing being used currently, per our Professor.
Even the 1945 work of Vannevar Bush gets to this point, from long ago. His "mesh of associative trails", or "web of trails" as the precursor to the web, was all about learning as an explorative journey, not an answer as a simple destination.

Teaching kids to explore and think, reason and solve problems, work together and collaborate, sounds like a lot more fun for everyone than doing test-prep drills any day.
We actually have a lot of research behind us when we try to encourage others to break away from what schools have been doing with all these tests, and the prep for them.

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