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Collateral damage : how high-stakes testing corrupts America’s schools

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Documents the threat high-stakes testing poses to the field of education, arguing that high-stakes testing undermines the purposes and ideals of the American education system.

Author(s): Nichols, Sharon Lynn; Berliner, David C.
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 234
City: Cambridge, Mass., Array, United States.
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A short history of high-stakes testing : arguments for and against its use, its place in contemporary society, and a brief introduction to Campbell's law --
The prevalence and many forms of cheating : and the problem of absolute and relativistic standards for judging such occurrences --
Excluding students from education by design and by neglect : the crisis of caring in our schools, and the special case of the "bubble kids"--
States cheat too! : how statistical trickery and misrepresentation of data mislead the public --
What happens to validity when indicators are distorted and corrupted : the many ways that high-stakes testing promotes such distortion and corruption, and how those practices lead to confusion about what test scores mean --
How high-stakes testing undermines public education and the teaching profession : while also destroying both teacher and student morale --
We conclude that high-stakes testing provides perfect conditions for Campbell's Law to operate : ignores standards for professional conduct and appropriate test use, and is unnecessary because alternative systems of accountability exist.