Study Argues Test Policies Don't Work
High-stakes testing is a "failed policy initiative" that does not produce gains on other measures of student learning, researchers at Arizona State University in Tempe argue in a recent paper.
"High-Stakes Testing, Uncertainty, and Student Learning," by Audrey L. Amrein and David C. Berliner, appears in last month's edition of the online scholarly journal Education Policy Analysis Archives .
It examines data from 18 states that attach high stakes to their test results. Such states, for example, use test scores to determine promotion from one grade to the next, graduation from high school, rewards for high-performing schools, and...
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