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Listening To Students: The Lived Experience Of Students Taking An Accountability Test, Laura Rutherford Crisp
Listening To Students: The Lived Experience Of Students Taking An Accountability Test, Laura Rutherford Crisp
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The purpose of this study is to understand the lived experience of students taking a high stakes test. The phenomenological method developed by Howard Pollio (Pollio, Graves, and Arfken, 2005, Thomas and Pollio, 2002, Pollio, Henley, and Thompson, 1997) at the University of Tennessee was utilized to explore the perceptions of the experience of fourth and fifth grade students who took the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) Achievement Test, an end of the year criterion-referenced, standardized achievement test given to students in Tennessee.
Nine students from two schools in East Tennessee were interviewed about their experience of taking the test. …