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Download full textSteedle, Jeffrey T. – ACT, Inc., 2021
Statewide testing with college admissions exams dates to 2001, when Colorado and Illinois introduced the practice. Such testing expanded in subsequent years, and beginning in 2017--2018, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) allowed states to use a college admissions exam to meet accountability requirements for high schools. Some see this option…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, College Entrance Examinations, High Stakes Tests, Academic Achievement
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Direct linkHong, Hyeri; Hamot, Gregory E. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2020
Using data on secondary school social studies teachers (n = 6,702) from the Survey of the Status of Social Studies (S4), a multilevel model, and an Item Response Theory (IRT) analysis, this study examined the associations of state testing policy and school characteristics on secondary social studies teachers' instructional autonomy as it relates…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, State Standards, State Policy, Social Studies
