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Everyone invested in the success of American education, from parents to policymakers, are affected by or concerned about educational testing. The education reform movement of the past 15 years has focused on raising academic standards. Some standards advocates attach a testing mechanism to gauge the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Phelps, Richard P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.
Subjects:
Achievement tests > United States.
Education > Standards > United States.
Educational accountability > United States.
Tests de rendement scolaire > États-Unis.
Éducation > Normes > États-Unis.
Responsabilité du rendement (Éducation) > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Evaluation.
STUDY AIDS > Tests.
EDUCATION > Testing & Measurement.
Achievement tests
Education > Standards
Educational accountability
Psychometrie.
Toetsing.
Studieresultaten.
Tests et mesures en éducation > États-Unis.
Indicateurs de l'enseignement > États-Unis.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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