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The paradoxes of high stakes testing : how they affect students, their parents, teachers, principals, schools, and society /
As a nation, we spend more than 1 billion a year on federally mandated educational tests that 30 million students must take each year. The country spends an additional 1.2 billion on test preparation materials designed to help students pass these tests. While test mandates were put in place with goo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlotte, N.C. :
Information Age Pub.,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | As a nation, we spend more than 1 billion a year on federally mandated educational tests that 30 million students must take each year. The country spends an additional 1.2 billion on test preparation materials designed to help students pass these tests. While test mandates were put in place with good intentions, increasingly educational leaders and policy makers are questioning these test based reform efforts. Some question whether these programs are doing more harm than good. Others call for the development of more and better tests. Given the vast amount of resources our nation pours into tes. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-250) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781607529835 1607529831 1282186876 9781282186873 |