T or F? The standardized test conundrum

         

 

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Paper

The Big Test, Nicholas Lemann, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

The Demand for Standardized Student Testing, Richard Phelps, Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, Fall 1998, pp. 5-23.

Discord Grows Over School Exit Exams, Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), June 20, 2000, Tuesday, P. 4A.

Education's Image in the New Millennium: One Debacle to Overcome, David Gilman, Journal of Educational Relations, 3rd Quarter, 1999, pp. 30-37.

A Fun Trip Back to the Fifties, Susan McLester, Technology & Learning, April, 2000, p. 31.

Measure for Measure: A Magnified Look at Standardized Test Results, Mike Antonucci, Education Intelligence Agency.

Nationwide Writing Skills Test Deemed Unreliable, Martha Groves, Los Angeles Times, March 22, 2000, Metro, P. B2.

Son of "What Schools Are Expected To Do," David Gilman, Contemporary Education, V. 69, No. 2, Winter 1998, pp. 68-9.

Standardized Minds, Peter Sacks, Perseus Books, 1999.

The War Against Testing, David Murray, Commentary, Sept. 1998, pp. 34-7.

When Teachers Are Cheaters, Barbara Kantrowitz and Daniel McGinn, Newsweek, 19 June, 2000, p 48.

Electronic

Maybe you'll do better at the National Center for Education Statistics

The Texas Education Network.

The Student Assessment Division of the Texas Education Agency oversees testing.

FairTest: The National Center for Fair & Open Testing.

Phi Delta Kappa International, an organization of professional educators, publishes plenty on testing.

No tests on our credits page. Not one!

 

 

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