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Download full textCroft, Michelle C.; Waltman, Kris; Middleton, Kyndra; Stevenson, Erika – Online Submission, 2005
The study was designed to develop a greater understanding of how test preparation practices/activities have changed in a state with an established testing program that has recently begun to use test scores for school-level accountability purposes. Teachers within 24 public high schools completed a questionnaire related to the use of test…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Testing, Nonparametric Statistics, Accountability
McNeil, Linda; Valenzuela, Angela – 2000
Drawing on the collective experience of the researchers, their work with teachers and principals, and their previous research in urban schools where students are predominantly Mexican American, this essay outlines the ways in which the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) harms the educational quality and opportunity of minority,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disadvantaged Youth, Equal Education, High Schools
