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Behuniak, Peter – 2003
Two trends have converged during the past three decades to change the face of public school education in America. First, achievement testing has been greatly expanded in terms of both the quantity of tests available and the number of uses for the information collected from testing. Second, there has been a significant increase in the development…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Change