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Testing Controversy: A Rhetoric of Educational Reform (Understanding Education & Policy) - Softcover

Phillips, Kendall

 
9781572734746: Testing Controversy: A Rhetoric of Educational Reform (Understanding Education & Policy)

Synopsis

This is a reading of the controversies surrounding educational testing between the early 1970s and the late 1990s. It focuses attention on the challenges to standardize testing, the emergence of performance-based and outcome-based education and the eventual decline of these reform efforts.

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