High-Stakes Testing: Coping With Collateral Damage

by R. Murray Thomas

Book Overview

The federal government's No Child Left Behind Act has thrust high-stakes testing - its goals, methods, and consequences - into the educational limelight. The four-fold purpose of this book is to: describe the nature of high-stakes testing; identify types of collateral damage that have attended the testing programs; analyze methods different groups of people have chosen for coping with the damage and suggest lessons to be learned from the high-stakes-testing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080585522X
• ISBN13: 9780805855227
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"