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Download full textHuddleston, Andrew P.; Rockwell, Elizabeth C. – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2015
This historical critique of high-stakes testing in reading focuses on selected events from three historical movements: 1) the history of standardized testing, 2) the history of standardized reading tests, and 3) the history of high-stakes testing. These three interrelated histories have produced the high-stakes, standardized reading tests used in…
Descriptors: Criticism, High Stakes Tests, Accountability, Efficiency
Linn, Robert L. – 2000
Assessment and accountability have played prominent roles in many reform efforts during the past 50 years. This digest reviews features of assessment and accountability that influence the trustworthiness of information provided and impacts educational practices and student learning. It discusses reform based on assessment and accountability,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Change
Peer reviewedLinn, Robert L. – Educational Researcher, 2000
Assessment and accountability have played prominent roles in many reform efforts during the past 50 years. Reviews features of assessment and accountability that influence the trustworthiness of information provided and impact educational practices and student learning. Discusses reform based on assessment and accountability, describes salient…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Change
Peer reviewedLinn, Robert L. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2001
Reviews features of assessment and accountability that influence the trustworthiness of information provided and impact educational practices and student learning. Discusses reform based on assessment and accountability, describes salient features in reform efforts, and makes suggestions for assessment and accountability systems. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Change
Allen, JoBeth – 1979
Much of what has developed in the testing of reading harkens back to the days of the "Cult of Efficiency" movement in education that can be largely attributed to Frederick Winslow Taylor. Taylor spent most of his productive years studying time and motion in an attempt to streamline industrial production so that people could work as…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Efficiency, Minimum Competency Testing
Peer reviewedHaney, Walt – American Psychologist, 1981
Discusses the meaning of intelligence, the social functions that tests serve, the appropriate use of personality tests, controversies regarding IQ measurement, minimum competency testing, test disclosure, test bias, and "truth in testing." Stresses that testing is as much a social and political issue as it is an issue of scientific measurement.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational History, Intelligence Tests, Minimum Competency Testing
