The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing: How They Affect Students, Their Parents, Teachers, Principals, Schools, and Society by George Madaus,Michael Russell,Jennifer Higgins

The high-stakes testing mania Why has testing become so important? What is a test? What human and cultural factors affect test performance? What technical issues affect test validity? Why is it important to regard testing as a technology? Why is the history of testing important? . On this site it is impossible to download the book, read the book online or get the contents of a book. The administration of the site is not responsible for the content of the site. The data of catalog based on open source database. All rights are reserved by their owners.

The book explores: how testing is used to enable teachers and schools to be more effective and improve student learning, why testing is so ingrained in the American psyche and why policy makers rely on testing policies to reform our educational system, what we can learn from a long history of testbased reform efforts that have occurred over centuries and across continents, what effects testing has on teaching and learning in our schools when it is used to solve political, social, or economic problems. The Paradoxes of HighStakes Testing explores these and other questions, as it helps parents, teachers, educational leaders, and policy makers better understand the complexities of educational policies that use tests as a lever for improving the quality of education.

Madaus, George . Russell, Michael . Higgins, Jennifer. Madaus, George F. is the author of 'Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing: How They Affect Students, Their Parents, Teachers, Principals, Schools, and Society', published 2009 under ISBN 9781607520276 and ISBN 1607520273. How do rentals work? Rent textbooks. Save up to 90% on the largest selection of textbook rentals in the business. We have the lowest prices - guaranteed.

The book's goal is to clarify for parents, the public, and policy makers what high stakes tests are and how their use affects our schools, children, and society. It explores the various uses, limitations, and paradoxical consequences of high stakes testing.

How They Affect Students, Their Parents, Teachers, Principals, Schools, and Society. By: George Madaus, Boston College Michael Russell, Boston College Jennifer Higgins. Is it time we invest resources to develop new ways of testing our students? The Paradoxes of High-Stakes Testing explores these and other questions, as it helps parents, teachers, educational leaders, and policy makers better understand the complexities of educational policies that use tests as a lever for improving the quality of education. The book explores: how testing is used to enable teachers and schools to be more effective and improve student learning

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Paradoxes of High-Stakes Testing george madaus and michael russell, boston college. Over the centuries and across nations, tests have been employed as bureaucratic tools for a variety of purposes. Consider how technologies like automobiles, tele-phones, and television have reshaped our lives and society. Not only have they affected the way we travel, communicate, and entertain, they have created massive industries, influenced poli-tics, and reshaped the structure of society. High-stakes testing is a minimalist technological strategy used to reform education.

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