Defending standardized testing / edited by Richard P. Phelps.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phelps, Richard P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Achievement tests--United States.

Achievement tests.

Education--Standards--United States.

Education.

Educational accountability--United States.

Educational accountability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The education reform movement of the past two decades has focused on raising academic standards. Some standards advocates attach a testing mechanism to gauge the extent to which high standards are actually accomplished, whereas some critics accuse the push for standards and testing of impeding reform and perpetuating inequality. At the same time, the testing profession has produced advances in the format, accuracy, dependability, and utility of tests. Never before has obtaining such an abundance of accurate and useful information about student learning been possible. Meanwhile, the American pu

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Introduction and Overview; 1 Persistently Positive: Forty Years of Public Opinion on Standardized Testing; 2 High-Stakes Testing: Contexts, Characteristics, Critiques, and Consequences; 3 The Rich, Robust Research Literature on Testing's Achievement Benefits; 4 Some Misconceptions About Large-Scale Educational Assessments; 5 The Most Frequently Unasked Questions About Testing; 6 Must High Stakes Mean Low Quality? Some Testing Program Implementation Issues; 7 Whose Rules? The Relation Between the ""Rules"" and ""Law"" of Testing

8 Teaching For the Test: How and Why Test Preparation is Appropriate9 Doesn't Everybody Know That 70% is Passing?; 10 The Testing Industry, Ethnic Minorities, and Individuals With Disabilities; 11 A School Accountability Case Study: California API Awards and the Orange County Register Margin of Error Folly; 12 Leave No Standardized Test Behind; Appendix A: Polls and Surveys That Have Included Items About Standardized Testing: 1954 to Present; Appendix B: Some Studies Revealing Testing Achievement Benefits, by Methodology Type; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4106-1259-7

9781410612595

OCLC:

74901950