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Direct linkDiGuilio, Laila Lejnieks – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The history of American schooling is replete with the interplay between politics, economics and social behavior. This has never been more evident than in the current environment of high stakes testing on core subjects that largely ignores other important noncognitive outcomes of education. Within this context, the present study built on previous…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Longitudinal Studies, Social Behavior, Job Satisfaction
McDermott, John W., Jr. – 1976
This study traces the controversy over the classification of children according to their ability from its origins in the development of the mental testing movement after 1916. The campaign to organize the schools largely on the basis of standardized tests of intelligence drew substantial support after 1920 from the development of research bureaus…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Ability, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Philosophy
McKay, Maria; Rock, Daphne – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1978
Two classroom teachers take a critical look at what the double exam system means for the children they teach. (Editor)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Ability, Competitive Selection, Critical Thinking
