Good article on the subject of how testing influences teaching (you'll need to go through a free login to get to the PDF). The idea of testing, of course, is that it will drive teachers in certain directions. But what happens when 'teaching to the test' fails to produce improved scores? What happens when other interests are also at play? "The notion that tests drive change makes sense, but only if a nest of interconnected assumptions hold: that the test is each teacher's primary concern; that the test clearly and consistently represents the directions reformers want instructional changes to take; and, most importantly, that each teacher interprets the test in the same way."
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