Essentials of Standardized Achievement Testing: Validity and Accountablilty - Softcover

Haladyna, Thomas M.

 
9780205326914: Essentials of Standardized Achievement Testing: Validity and Accountablilty

Synopsis

This text examines standardized achievement testing in critical terms with the notion that students should be tested in ways that benefit them and their learning.

Standardized testing continues to play a major role as an indicator of achievement in American Education. This book seeks to increase readers' understanding of standardized testing so that they will become intelligent consumers. The book is not a compendium of facts, but is organized around the central issues of interpretation, usage, and consequences of testing.

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