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Download full textBaker, Eva L. – 1988
The thesis of this paper is that achievement tests have changed their primary function from serving as indicators of educational accomplishments to becoming instruments of educational policy, and have thus come to be regarded as effective means of altering educational achievement and productivity. This assertion is explored by using examples of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
