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Peer reviewedWard, Cynthia A. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2000
Discusses the implications of the "GI Forum v. Texas Education Agency" (2000) decision supporting the use of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills for other state assessment programs. Notes that the legal success of the state test in Texas was not due merely to good fortune, but to the test's adherence to legally defensible principles.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Problems
Download full textVan Patten, James J. – 2002
High stakes testing is associated with controversy and dialogue in this era of calls for accountability on the part of educators, and the controversy has been strengthened by the national testing plans included in the Leave No Child Behind Act (Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 2001). A look at the literature on high stakes testing and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, College Bound Students, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedMoore, William P. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1994
Teacher testing-related attitudes and practices related to court-ordered achievement testing were studied through a mail survey completed by 79 elementary school teachers in a midwestern urban district. Teachers engaged in a large number of test preparation practices and reported finding minimal value in purpose or results of testing. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Court Litigation, Educational Assessment, Educational Practices
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1975
The National Education Association (NEA) Task Force on Testing's position statement on educational and psychological testing, originally presented at the 1973 Representative Assembly of NEA, is reinforced for the 1975 assembly. In summary, the task force believes that the major use of tests should be to improve instruction--to diagnose learning…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Achievement Tests, Court Litigation, Disadvantaged
