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High-Stakes Test Accommodations
Learning Disability Quarterly, 2012Because high stakes are now attached to standardized assessments of student progress, policy makers, administrators, practitioners, and parents must understand how to most effectively and accurately measure the performance of all students, including students with learning disabilities (LD).
Stephanie A. Lai, Sheri Berkeley
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Resist High-Stakes Testing!: High Stakes Are for Tomatoes
Language Arts, 2000Presents a call to action (including an outline of specific ideas) to educators to resist high-stakes testing, and encourages them to stand up for what they know about how and why children learn (not by the threat of being retained or not graduating) and how and what to teach (not teaching to the tests).
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High-Stakes Testing and Assessment
2007This chapter highlights the uncertainty, concerns, and approbation that accompany high-stakes language testing and assessment. It takes as a case study the language assessment of teachers of English in Hong Kong, and, in particular, the innovative performance test of teacher Classroom Language Assessment (CLA). The case study provides examples of major
David Coniam, Peter Falvey
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2017
In the previous article on high-stakes testing, we looked at the origins and criticisms of standardized tests. In this article, problems with test construction and guidelines for improvement will be briefly visited.
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In the previous article on high-stakes testing, we looked at the origins and criticisms of standardized tests. In this article, problems with test construction and guidelines for improvement will be briefly visited.
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The Wrath of High-Stakes Tests
The Urban Review, 2001Testing has become an attractive option for policymakers both because it has the potential to affect the behavior of educators in the educational system and because it is often viewed by the public as a way to guarantee a basic level of quality education.
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The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing
2009As a nation, we spend more than $1 billion a year on federally mandated educational tests that 30 million students must take each year. The country spends an additional $1.2 billion on test preparation materials designed to help students pass these tests.
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A review of the benefits and drawbacks of high-stakes final examinations in higher education
Higher Education, 2023Sarah French, Raoul A Mulder
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