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The Wrath of High-Stakes Tests

The Urban Review, 2001
Testing 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.
R. Lattimore
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Differential Performance in High Versus Low Stakes Tests: Evidence from the Gre Test*

Economic Journal, 2019
We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in ‘high’ and ‘low’ stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), and the low stakes situation is a voluntary ...
Analía Schlosser, Z. Neeman, Y. Attali
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Testing High-Stakes Tests: Can We Believe the Results of Accountability Tests?

Teachers College Record, 2003
This study examines whether the results of standardized tests are distorted when rewards and sanctions are attached to them, making them high-stakes tests.
Jay P. Greene   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

High-Stakes Testing

Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2007
SUMMARY I review the literature on the impact on student achievement of high-stakes testing. Its popularity as a mechanism for holding educators accountable has triggered studies to examine whether its promise to increase student learning has been fulfilled.
openaire   +1 more source

Virginia vs. Florida: Two Beginning History Teachers’ Perceptions of the Influence of High-Stakes Tests on Their Instructional Decision-Making

Social Studies Research and Practice, 2006
This paper examines how a beginning teacher in Virginia and a beginning teacher in Florida make sense of the high-stakes tests in their state. By examining beginning teachers in two states where the tests are so very different, we gain important insight ...
E. Yeager, Stephanie D. van Hover
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Children’s wellbeing in a high-stakes testing environment: The case of Hong Kong

, 2020
The current literature on the impact of high-stakes testing largely focuses on Western countries, is adult-centric, and mainly considers the impact on teaching and learning.
E. Cho, T. S. Chan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preparing Policymakers for Standard Setting on High-Stakes Tests

, 1987
Those individuals who must establish passing standards for important tests typically do so with little or no standard-setting experience. Given the significant impact of the standards set on high-stakes tests, it is contended in this essay that formal ...
W. Popham
semanticscholar   +1 more source

High stakes testing

Theory and Research in Education, 2004
This response argues that, although evaluation of student learning is required for accountability, high stakes testing is not required and may even be counterproductive. It also questions whether the goals of the ‘No Child Left Behind Act’ are reasonable and contends that, if they are not, there may be no justification for imposing punishments and ...
openaire   +1 more source

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