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Commentary, Susan Freeman
Toward Meaningful Assessment: Lessons From Five First-Grade Classrooms, Laura Kates
Toward Meaningful Assessment: Lessons From Five First-Grade Classrooms, Laura Kates
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A case study of six first grade teachers' responses to a performance assessment mandated in New York City Public Schools from 1998 to 2003.
Confounded And Compounded By Language: English Language Learners And High Stakes Testing, Elizabeth Park
Confounded And Compounded By Language: English Language Learners And High Stakes Testing, Elizabeth Park
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As her students prepare to take their tests to exhibit English proficiency, the atmosphere, writes Park, "becomes military at best, prison-like at worst. Regulations are distributed. Teachers are warned that state examiners may appear unannounced to look for infractions of the myriad rules..." Scare tactics are used to try to assure that the testing activity remains uncontaminated by human desire, fear, or simple boredom.