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Download full textDietel, Ron – Center for Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning (CAESL) at WestEd, 2004
The increase in large-scale standardized testing in the nation's schools is one major result of demands for accountability. Such testing also impacts many aspects of school and family life and culture. For some, certain unintended impacts may be like side effects of medicines that need to be tolerated; for others they raise larger questions about…
Descriptors: Testing, Standardized Tests, Scores, Accountability
National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest), Cambridge, MA. – 1990
English and Spanish versions of a guide to testing reform are presented. The guide explains alternatives to standardized testing for educational assessment and shows how these new methods of evaluation will improve education. Standardized tests are used for an increasing number of purposes in the school system, but there is no proof that their use…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
