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The education reform movement of the past two decades has focused on raising academic standards. Some standards advocates attach a testing mechanism to gauge the extent to which high standards are actually accomplished, whereas some critics accuse the push for standards and testing of impeding reform and perpetuating inequality. At the same time, the testing profession has produced advances in the format, accuracy, dependability, and utility of tests. Never before has obtaining such an abundance of accurate and useful information about student learning been possible. Meanwhile, the American pu No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)371.26Social sciences Education Teachers, Methods, and Discipline School organization; School records AssessmentLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings. |