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Standardized Tests and School Curricula.
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Mehrens, William A.; Green, Donald Ross – 1986
This paper discusses the relationship of the content of nationally standardized and normed achievement tests and that of local school curricula and the effect that relationship has on the meanings and uses of the test scores. The following questions are considered: (1) whether tests have to match what is taught to be useful; (2) whether it is fair…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education