The US No Child Left Behind Act put high-stakes testing into the educational limelight. The purpose of this book is to: describe high-stakes testing; identify types of collateral damage that have attended the testing programs; analyze methods for coping with the damage; and suggest lessons to be learned from the high-stakes-testing experience.
Contents
Preface; Chapter 1: The Nature of Collateral Damage; Part I: Tasks of the Testing Game; Part II: The Testing Game's Players; References; Name Index; Subject Index.
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