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Shepard, Lorrie A. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2009
In many school districts, the pressure to raise test scores has created overnight celebrity status for formative assessment. Its powers to raise student achievement have been touted, however, without attending to the research on which these claims were based. Sociocultural learning theory provides theoretical grounding for understanding how…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Validity, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods

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