Adapting Educational Measurement to the Demands of Test-Based Accountability
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Adapting Educational Measurement to the Demands of Test-Based Accountability A working paper of the Education Accountability Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eap
Accountability has become a primary function of large-scale testing in the U.S. The pressure on educators to raise scores is vastly greater than it was several decades ago. Research has shown that high-stakes testing can generate behavioral responses that inflate scores, often severely. I argue that because of these responses, using tests for accountability necessitates major changes in the pra...
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عنوان ژورنال: Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1536-6367,1536-6359
DOI: 10.1080/15366367.2015.1000712