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High-Stakes Standardized Testing & Marginalized Youth: An Examination of the Impact on Those Who Fail
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Kearns, Laura-Lee – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
This study examines the impact of high-stakes, large-scale, standardized literacy testing on youth who have failed the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. Interviews with youth indicate that the unintended impact of high-stakes testing is more problematic than policy makers and educators may realize. In contrast to literacy policy's aims to…
Descriptors: Testing, Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Foreign Countries