عنوان

Defending standardized testing /

(cloth : alk. paper)

(pbk. : alk. paper)

0805849114

0805849122

b524046

Defending standardized testing /

[Book]

edited by Richard P. Phelps

Mahwah, N.J. :

L. Erlbaum Associates,

2005

xviii, 341 p. :

ill. ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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Achievement tests-- United States

Education-- Standards-- United States

Educational accountability-- United States

Phelps, Richard P

20060126000000.0

[Book]

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