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State Mandated Testing and Educational Reform: Context and Consequences
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In response to 20 years of educational growth, shifts in the locus of school control, and politicization of educational decision making, new forms and uses of standardized testing have arisen.Abstract:
In response to 20 years of educational growth, shifts in the locus of school control, and politicization of educational decision making, new forms and uses of standardized testing have arisen. In particular, policy-oriented tests that are mandated and controlled by agencies external to the local school have become widely used to certify student and teacher competence. It is the use of such certification tests that is at the root of most current debate and controversy regarding educational testing. This article describes the social trends that have spawned the new testing programs. It considers the characteristics and the educational consequences of the new state-mandated tests. A set of propositions to guide understanding of testing debate and controversy is provided.read more
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Professional Development and Teacher Change
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High-Stakes Testing and Curricular Control: A Qualitative Metasynthesis
TL;DR: The authors analyzed 49 qualitative studies to examine how high-stakes testing affects curriculum, defined here as embodying content, knowledge form, and pedagogy, finding that curricular content is narrowed to tested subjects, subject area knowledge is fragmented into test-related pieces, and teachers increase the use of teacher-centered pedagogies.
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Inequality, A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America.
TL;DR: The book Inequality by Christopher Jencks is in one sense an arid waste of somewhat confusing and misleading statistics between chapter one and chapter nine, and, in another sense, a destructive, unscientific critique of American education and families.
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Stability and Change in Human Characteristics.
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Inequality : a reassessment of the effect of family and schooling in America
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