WriteMyEssay.com

Standardized Testing / An Eric - Based Literature Review

Approx. Words: 1,125 - Pages: 5 Add to cart Price $54.75

...by Jeannie MacAdams , July 1998 As standardized testing gained in popularity and increased in educators' convictions that it could be relied on to yield concrete results regarding schools' efficacy in teaching the nation's children, its focus was more on measuring results achieved. For the past several years, however, the focus of standardized testing has shifted in many educational areas so that they measure not actual levels of achievement, but rather measure educational gains (Camilli, 1996). School systems increasingly attempt to estimate gains for any number of divisions within a system, ranging from the individual student or individual teacher to gains across schools and school districts (Camilli, 1996). Some scholars (Stedman, 1996) maintain there is a dangerous decline in the state of American education that has not, regardless of claims made, righted itself even though testing spending has increased nearly exponentially over the past decade. Others, such as Berliner (1996) hold that despite observed a decline in scores, there never has been a decline in true...

References:

Add to cart Price $54.75