| Description |
xviii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Persistently positive : forty years of public opinion on standardized testing / Richard P. Phelps -- High-stakes testing : contexts, characteristics, critiques, and consequences / Gregory J. Cizek -- The rich, robust research literature on testing's achievement benefits / Richard P. Phelps -- Some misconceptions about large-scale educational assessments / Dean Goodman and Ronald K. Hambleton -- The most frequently unasked questions about testing / Stephen G. Sireci -- Must high stakes mean low quality? Some testing program implementation issues / George K. Cunningham -- Whose rules? The relation between the "rules" and "law" of testing / Chad W. Buckendahl and Robert Hunt -- Teaching for the test : how and why test preparation is appropriate / Linda Crocker -- Doesn't everybody know that 70% is passing? / Barbara S. Plake -- The testing industry, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities / Kurt F. Geisinger -- A school accountability case study : California API awards and the Orange County register margin of error folly / David Rogosa -- Leave no standardized test behind / Mary Lyn Bourque -- Appendix A : Polls and surveys that have included items about standardized testing : 1954 to present -- Appendix B : Some studies revealing testing achievement benefits, by methodology type. |
| Subject |
Achievement tests -- United States.
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Achievement tests. |
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United States. |
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Education -- Standards -- United States.
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Education -- Standards. |
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Educational accountability -- United States.
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Educational accountability. |
| Added Author |
Phelps, Richard P.
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| ISBN |
0805849114 cloth alkaline paper |
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0805849122 paperback alkaline paper |
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