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High Stakes Testing

Title: High Stakes Testing
Category: Society & Culture / Education
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High Stakes Testing

Introduction <Tab/>For centuries, the prevailing assumption about learning has been that the teacher tells, shows, or demonstrates facts, knowledge, rules of action, and principles, and then the students practices them (Burton, 1996). Hence, the way in which a student was assessed has been indicative of this assumption. However, in the last decade there has been somewhat of a "revolution" in the world of education. Educators and policy makers alike have worked …showed first 75 words of 3734 total

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showed last 75 words of 3734 total…schools, Phi Delta Kappan, May 2003; 665-668 XII.<Tab/>Woodson, C.G., Miseducation of the negro. Africa World Press, Inc. XIII.<Tab/>Stake, R. (1998). Some comments on assessment in u.s. education. Educational Policy Analysis Archives 6 (14) XIV.<Tab/>Heubert, J. P., Hauser, R. M.(1999). High stakes: testing for tracking, promotion, and graduation. Washington, DC: National Academy Press [On-line]. Available: http://www.nap.edu/html/highstakes/

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