High-stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning

High-stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning
Author: David W. Hursh
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780742561496


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Argues that education in the States and Britain has been radically transformed, through efforts to create curricular standards, and through an emphasis on accountability measured by standardized tests, and efforts to introduce market competition and private services into educational systems.


High-stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning
Language: en
Pages: 190
Authors: David W. Hursh
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Argues that education in the States and Britain has been radically transformed, through efforts to create curricular standards, and through an emphasis on accou
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Pages: 189
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Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Daniel Koretz
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-31 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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America's leading expert in educational testing and measurement openly names the failures caused by today's testing policies and provides a blueprint for doing
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Pages: 137
Authors: David Hursh
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-22 - Publisher: Myers Education Press

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Language: en
Pages: 166
Authors: Kenneth J. Saltman
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-17 - Publisher: Routledge

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Corporate school reforms, especially privatization, union busting, and high-stakes testing have been hailed as the last best hope for public education. Yet, as