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Download full textMcNeil, 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
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Direct linkKoretz, Daniel – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
No one can dispute that tests should measure important content, and for many (but not all) purposes, tests should be aligned with curricular goals. Thus in many cases, alignment is clearly better than the alternative, and nothing that follows here argues otherwise. Unfortunately, however, this does not imply that alignment is sufficient protection…
Descriptors: Test Use, High Stakes Tests, Accountability, Scoring
