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  • The Unintended Consequences of High-Stakes Testing

    To better understand how high-stakes accountability has influenced teaching and learning, this book takes an in-depth look at the myriad consequences that high-stakes tests hold for students, teachers, administrators, and the public. By focusing on these tests and spending large amounts of time on test preparation and driving teachers to teach low-level, rote memorization, schools are essentially ... Leer más

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  • The Eleven-Plus Book

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  • Leadership of Assessment, Inclusion, and Learning

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities associated with assessment. In particular, it offers guidance to school and district personnel charged with fair and appropriate assessment of students who represent a wide variety of abilities and ... Leer más

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  • Developing and Validating Multiple-choice Test Items

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  • Language Testing Reconsidered

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  • The Development and Education of the Mind

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  • High-Stakes Schooling

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  • Assessment Myths

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  • Assessing Children with Specific Learning Difficulties

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