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Download full textTeale, William H. – Texas Reading Report, 1989
Standardized tests represent one way of obtaining assessment information. Yet in recent years educators and the public have voiced concerns about an overriding emphasis on tests and test scores. Pressure to "teach to the test" means that not enough time is spent on higher order thinking and literacy skills because minimal competencies…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Emergent Literacy, Minimum Competency Testing
High Stakes Minimum Skills Tests: Is Their Use Increasing Achievement? ORE Publication Number 90.25.
Rodgers, Natalie; And Others – 1991
Changes in mathematics achievement at grade 11 before and after the implementation of the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) were studied in an urban school district in Texas. High stakes tests are used by state education agencies and school districts to monitor and increase educational achievement. The TEAMS is a minimum…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, Grade 11
