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Yong Zhao, Ph. D

Foundation Distinguished Professor

School of Education and Human Sciences

University of KansasLawrence, KS 66049

Email: yongzhao@ku.edu

http://zhaolearning.com

Education

Ph. D. in Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.

1. in Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994.
2. in English Language Education, Sichuan International Studies University, 1986.

Employment

1. June 2020—December 2024, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne.
2. August 2016-Present, Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, with courtesy appointment with School of Business, University of Kansas.
3. January 2018—2019, Global Chair, University of Bath, UK (visiting appointment).
4. May 2012 – 2018, Professorial Fellow, Mitchell Institute for Educational Policy, Victoria University, Australia (Summer appointment).
5. December, 2010-June 2016, Presidential Chair, Weiman Professor of Technology, Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership, College of Education, University of Oregon.
6. August, 2013-June 2016, Director, Institute for Global and Online Education, University of Oregon
7. December, 2010-August, 2013, Associate Dean, College of Education, University of Ore

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Yong Zhao and William McDiarmid: Time to Rethink Standardized Testing

Two friends got together to address an important topic for readers of the blog. Yong Zhao is a much-published international scholar based at the University of Kansas. Bill McDiarmid is Dean Emeritus of the College of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

They write:

COVID-19 has disrupted schooling in its traditional sense. It has also disrupted other school related activities such as state standardized testing. As schools return to “normal” thanks to vaccination, many states are already pushing to resume standardized testing as part of the “normal” operations of formal education and to assess the so-called “learning loss” (Zhao, 2021). Resuming standardized testing is perhaps one of the worst things that can happen to children, especially after more than a year of social isolation and unprecedented disruption.

Standardized testing in schools has been criticized repeatedly for multiple reasons. A decade and a half ago, Sharon Nichols and David Berliner clearly articulate the damage to American education caused by standardized tests in their book, Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America’s Schools(Nichols & Berliner, 2007). Dan Koretz has cited m