Arizona State Education Professor to Speak at UH Manoa on High-Stakes Testing

Dr. David C. Berliner, Regents‘ Professor of Education at Arizona State University, is the guest speaker for the Seventh Annual Alice and Carl Daeufer, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and College of Education Lecture.

Berliner will speak on "The Negative Effects of High-Stakes Testing" on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m. at Bilger Hall Auditorium, Room 152, on the UH Mānoa campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. Parking is available for $3.00.

Berliner has also taught at the University of Arizona, University of Massachusetts, University of Oregon, and Stanford University, as well as in Australia, Israel, Spain and the Netherlands. He is a member of the National Academy of Education, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is a past president of both the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Division of Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA).

He is the recipient of numerous awards for distinguished contributions from AERA, APA, and the National Education Association. He is co-author of the bestseller, "The Manufactured Crisis," co-author of "Putting Research to Work," and co-author of the textbook "Educational Psychology," now in its sixth edition. In addition, Berliner has authored nearly 200 published articles, technical reports and book chapters.

For more information about the event, contact the Hawaiʻi Institute for Educational Partnerships at (808) 956-7856.