For example, some people use “teaching the test” to refer to teaching specific items on the test (clearly bad) and “teaching to the test” to refer to focusing on the skills the test is supposed to represent (presumably good). Others, however, use “teaching to the test” to mean instruction that is inappropriately focused on the details of the test (presumably bad, and likely to inflate scores). I think it’s best to ignore all of this and to distinguish instead between seven different types of test preparation: Working more effectively Teaching more Working harder Reallocation Alignment Coaching
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