Market-oriented reforms and "high stakes" testing: Incentives and consequences
This paper focuses on the use of "high stakes" tests and examinations, which by definition have serious consequences; high stakes tests are used in an attempt to raise standards and to evaluate school systems. A range of dysfunctional consequences of high stakes testing are observed, inclu...
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Main Authors: | Anne West (Author), Hazel Pennell (Author) |
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Les éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'Homme,
2005-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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