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By All Measures: Further Reading

June 17, 1992 1 min read
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Testing in American Schools: Asking the Right Questions, United States Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, OTA-SET-519 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.; February 1992).

National Standards for Education: What They Might Look Like, Policy Information Center, Educational Testing Service, (Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J.; March 1992).

Beaton, Albert E., Considerations for National Examinations (Policy Information Center, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J.; January 1992).

Raising Standards for American Education, National Council on Education Standards and Testing (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.; January 1992).

“Standards: A Vision for Learning,’' Perspective, Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter 1991, Council for Basic Education.

For Good Measure: Principles and Goals for Mathematics Assessment, Mathematical Sciences Education Board (National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.; 1991).

A version of this article appeared in the June 17, 1992 edition of Education Week as By All Measures: Further Reading

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