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Download full textHerman, Joan L.; Baker, Eva L.; Linn, Robert L. – Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing CRESST, 2004
This focus of this newsletter asserts that if one accepts that accountability systems are intended to serve both symbolic and technical functions, one can ask how well they are operating symbolically to motivate action and how well they are doing in providing adequate technical information to support intended inferences. In this column, it is…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
Peer reviewedKiplinger, Vonda L.; Linn, Robert L. – Educational Assessment, 1996
Current discussions of the effects of test administration conditions (i.e., testing stakes) and the motivational levels associated with them on achievement test performance are reviewed. Results of a nonexperimental study suggest that, in contrast to a moderate-stakes testing environment, the National Assessment of Educational Progress does not…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests
