R Murray Thomas

High-Stakes Testing

Coping With Collateral Damage

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The federal government's No Child Left Behind Act has thrust high-stakes testing (its goals, methods, and consequences) into the educational limelight. The four-fold purpose of this book is to: 1) describe the nature of high-stakes testing; 2) identify types of collateral damage that have attended the testing programs; 3) analyze methods different groups of people have chosen for coping with the damage; and 4) suggest lessons to be learned from the high-stakes-testing experience. The six groups of people whose coping strategies are inspected include: a) politicians and their staffs; b) educational administrators and their staffs; c) parents and the public; d) test makers and test administrators; e) teachers; and f) students. Importantly, the author avoids aligning himself with the test-bashing rhetoric of those who oppose high-stakes testing, especially the No Child Left Behind Act.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780805855210
• ISBN-10: 0805855211
• Artikelnr.: 22183406

Autorenporträt

R. Murray Thomas

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. The Nature of Collateral Damage. Part I: Tasks of the
Testing Game. What Should the Schools Teach? What Should the Schools
Evaluate and How? How Should Achievement Standards Be Set? How Should Test
Results Be Used? Part II: The Testing Game's Players. Politicians and Their
Staffs. Educational Administrators and Their Staffs. The Public and
Parents. Test-Makers and Test-Givers. Teachers. Students. Lessons to Learn.