R Murray Thomas

High-Stakes Testing

Coping With Collateral Damage

• Broschiertes 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 t

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780805855227
• ISBN-10: 080585522X
• Artikelnr.: 22418003

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.