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Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It » Read Now
by Peter Sacks. 368 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

We've been told time and time again that standardized tests aren't perfect but that they're the best tool we have for gauging aptitude and achievement. Is this really true? What are the flaws of such testing? Why is your father's occupation a better predictor of SAT scores than virtually any other...
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We've been told time and time again that standardized tests aren't perfect but that they're the best tool we have for gauging aptitude and achievement. Is this really true? What are the flaws of such testing? Why is your father's occupation a better predictor of SAT scores than virtually any other factor? And, most important, what can we do to hold one another accountable to standards at all levels of schools and in the workplace?
Standardized Minds dramatically shows how our unhealthy and enduring obsession with intelligence testing affects us all, from the day we enter kindergarten to the day we apply for that corporate job. Drawing creative solutions from the headlines and the frontlines, Sacks demonstrates proven alternatives to such testing and details a plan to make the American meritocracy legitimate and fair.
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Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing » Read Now
by Linda M. McNeil. 304 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Parents and community activists around the country complain that the education system is failing our children. They point to students failure to master basic skills, even as standardized testing is widely employed in efforts to improve the educational system. Contradictions of Reform is a...
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Parents and community activists around the country complain that the education system is failing our children. They point to students failure to master basic skills, even as standardized testing is widely employed in efforts to improve the educational system. Contradictions of Reform is a provocative look into the reality, for students as well as teachers, of standardized testing. A detailed account of how student "improvement" and teacher "effectiveness" are evaluated. Contradictions of Reform argues compellingly that the preparation of students for standardized tests engenders teaching methods that vastly compromise the quality of education.
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The New Accountability: High Schools and High-Stakes Testing » Read Now
by Martin Carnoy, Richard Elmore, Leslie Santee Siskin. 218 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

"Standard-based accountability" has become a consistent buzzword emanating from the mouths of hopeful politicians-liberal and conservative-for almost twenty years. But does accountability work? The New Accountability explores the current wave of assessment-based school accountability reforms, which...
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"Standard-based accountability" has become a consistent buzzword emanating from the mouths of hopeful politicians-liberal and conservative-for almost twenty years. But does accountability work? The New Accountability explores the current wave of assessment-based school accountability reforms, which combine two traditions in American education-public accountability and student testing.
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Research Review for School Leaders, Vol. III (Chap. 8 "The Construction of Standardized Tests and Their Uses" and Chap. 11 "High Stakes, Low Stakes Testing: Do Stakes Really Matter?") » Read Now
by William G. Wraga, Peter S. Hlebowitsh, Daniel Tanner. 400 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

The Research Review for School Leaders, Volume III is specifically designed as a practical resource for school leaders whose schedules preclude opportunities to locate and review key research on every issue they must address. It places comprehensive, current, and accessible reviews of educational...
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The Research Review for School Leaders, Volume III is specifically designed as a practical resource for school leaders whose schedules preclude opportunities to locate and review key research on every issue they must address. It places comprehensive, current, and accessible reviews of educational research at their fingertips, and is organized to make the research and practices it summarizes useful to them in their professional endeavors. This is the third volume of the Review. Although the title has changed, its purpose and substance is continuous with the work of the earlier volumes. The first Annual Review of Research for School Leaders (1996) summarized research on the status of public schooling, interdisciplinary curriculum, and educational applications of computers. The second volume (1998) addressed the topics of middle-level education, the extracurriculum, mathematics education reform, and drop outs. The present Volume III offers educational leaders reviews of research on five timely educational issues: * citizenship education; * multicultural education; * gifted and talented education; * classroom assessment; and * scheduling. A basic premise of this volume is that, to make sound decisions, professionals need to be up to date on current research related to the problems with which they grapple. A second premise is that research cannot simply be imposed in a formulaic way on a local setting; the nature of the particular problem to be solved will always bear upon the relevance of research to a specific context. Thus, this volume is envisioned as a helpful resource for school leaders as they engage in important discussions of the research with teachers, school board members, parents, and other interested parties as they collaboratively seek effective resolutions to local educational problems.
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Construction versus Choice in Cognitive Measurement: Issues in Constructed Response, Performance Testing, and Portfolio Assessment (Chap. 13 "The Federal Role in Standardized Testing") » Read Now
by Randy Elliot Bennett, William C. Ward. 342 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Defending Standardized Testing » Read Now
by Richard P. Phelps. 341 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Excellence in Education versus High-Stakes Standardized Testing, in Journal of Teacher Education » Read Now
by Asa G. Hilliard. 12 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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The Dilemma of High-Stakes Testing: What Is School For?, in International Journal of Instructional Media » Read Now
by Jim Donlevy. 7 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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The Extent and Character of System-Wide Student Testing in the United States, in Educational Assessment » Read Now
by Richard P. Phelps. 33 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Test Theory for a New Generation of Tests (Chap. 5 "Toward Intelligent Assessment: An Integration of Constructed-Response Testing, Artificial Intelligence, and Model-Based Measurement") » Read Now
by Norman Hoeber Frederiksen, Robert J. Mislevy, Isaac I. Bejar. 406 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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State Standardized Testing Programs: Friend or Foe of Gifted Education, in Roeper Review » Read Now
by Tonya R. Moon, Catherine M. Brighton, Carolyn M. Callahan. 12 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Using Standardized Test Unconventionally: An Adapted Reading Assessment, in Reading Improvement (Includes discussion of using standardized tests with ESL students) » Read Now
by Ping Liu, Richerd Parker, Rafael Lara. 11 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Preventing Early School Failure: Impacts of Success for All on Standardized Test Outcomes, Minority Group Performance, and School Effectiveness, in Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk » Read Now
by Steven M. Ross, Lana J. Smith, Jason P. Casey. 25 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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High-Stakes Testing of Students with Disabilities, in Journal of Teacher Education » Read Now
by Martha L. Thurlow, David R. Johnson. 10 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Eliminating Standardized Tests in College Admissions: The New Affirmative Action?, in Phi Delta Kappan » Read Now
by Rebecca Zwick. 5 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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The Devaluation of Standardized Testing: One District's Response to a Mandated Assessment, in Applied Measurement in Education » Read Now
by William P. Moore. 25 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library