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Making sense of test-based accountability in education

Title
Making sense of test-based accountability in education / Laura S. Hamilton, Brian M. Stecher, Stephen P. Klein, editors ; prepared for the National Science Foundation.
Publication
Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Hamilton, Laura S.
  • Stecher, Brian M.
  • Klein, Stephen P., 1938-
  • National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Description
xxi, 168 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Educational tests and measurements > United States
  • Educational accountability > United States
  • Educational accountability
  • Educational tests and measurements
  • Evaluation
  • Leistungsmessung
  • Schule
  • United States
  • USA
Note
  • "MR-1554."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-168).
Contents
Introduction -- Tests and their use in test-based accountability systems -- Technical criteria for evaluating tests -- Consequences of large-scale, high-stakes testing on school and classroom practice -- Accountability as seen through a political lens -- Improving test-based accountability.
ISBN
  • 0833031619
  • 9780833031617
LCCN
2002069685
OCLC
  • ocm49681451
  • 49681451
  • SCSB-8905069
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library