The Testing and Learning Revolution: The Future of Assessment in Education

by Kavitha Rajagopalan, Edmund W. Gordon

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.

209 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 28, 2016

About the author

Kavitha Rajagopalan is the author of "Muslims of Metropolis" (Rutgers University Press, September 2008), a narrative nonfiction examination of migration, integration, and identity formation in three Muslim families in the West -- a Palestinian family in London, a Kurdish family in Berlin, and a Bangladeshi family in New York City. Research and travel for the book was funded by the Fulbright program, the U.S. Department of Education and the American Council on Germany.

She is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, where she specializes on migration and the informal economy, immigrant identity formation, and global migration. She is currently researching a second book.

Kavitha has worked as a research analyst on corporate social responsibility issues in financial services, as a communications strategist for various nonprofit development and social justice organizations, and a journalist in the USA, Germany and India. She received her Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University in 2003, and her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the College of William & Mary in 1999. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband.