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Pages: 240
Authors: Pauline Lipman
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-02-29 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book analyses the ways in which schools in urban areas are shaped and influenced by social, economic and political forces within the social environment. Ut
The Testing Charade
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Daniel Koretz
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-31 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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America's leading expert in educational testing and measurement openly names the failures caused by today's testing policies and provides a blueprint for doing
High-Stakes Schooling
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Christopher Bjork
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Drawing on Japan's experiences with testing, overtesting, and recent reforms to relax educational pressures, Christopher Bjork sheds light on the best path forw
Collateral Damage
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Sharon L. Nichols
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-01 - Publisher: Harvard Education Press

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Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the Ame
The Unintended Consequences of High-Stakes Testing
Language: en
Pages: 189
Authors: Gail M. Jones
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-09 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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To better understand how high-stakes accountability has influenced teaching and learning, this book takes an in-depth look at the myriad consequences that high-