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" Defending standardized testing / "
edited by Richard P. Phelps
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BL
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701857
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b524046
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Defending standardized testing /\ edited by Richard P. Phelps
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| Publication Statement
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Mahwah, N.J. :: L. Erlbaum Associates,, 2005
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xviii, 341 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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0805849114
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: 0805849122
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Persistently positive : forty years of public opinion on standardized testing / Richard P. Phelps -- High-stakes testing : contexts, characteristics, critiques, and consequences / Gregory J. Cizek -- The rich, robust research literature on testing's achievement benefits / Richard P. Phelps -- Some misconceptions about large-scale educational assessments / Dean Goodman and Ronald K. Hambleton -- The most frequently unasked questions about testing / Stephen G. Sireci -- Must high stakes mean low quality? Some testing program implementation issues / George K. Cunningham -- Whose rules? The relation between the "rules" and "law" of testing / Chad W. Buckendahl and Robert Hunt -- Teaching for the test : how and why test preparation is appropriate / Linda Crocker -- Doesn't everybody know that 70% is passing? / Barbara S. Plake -- The testing industry, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities / Kurt F. Geisinger -- A school accountability case study : California API awards and the Orange County register margin of error folly / David Rogosa -- Leave no standardized test behind / Mary Lyn Bourque -- Appendix A : Polls and surveys that have included items about standardized testing : 1954 to present -- Appendix B : Some studies revealing testing achievement benefits, by methodology type
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Achievement tests-- United States
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Education-- Standards-- United States
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Educational accountability-- United States
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LB3060.3.D44 2004
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Phelps, Richard P
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