Raising standards or raising barriers? : inequality and high-stakes testing in public education

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments = ⅶ
• Preface = ⅸ
• 1. High-Stakes Testing Policies : Examining Their Assumptions ; Consequences / by Mindy L. Kornhaber and Gary Orfield = 1
• 2. The Development and Impact of High-Stakes Testing / by Gary Natriello ; Aaron M. Pallas = 19
• 3. High-Stakes Testing and Economic Productivity / by Henry M. Levin = 39
• 4. The Impacts of Minimum Competency Exam Graduation Requirements on College Attendance and Early Labor Market Success of Disadvantaged Students / by John H. Bishop ; Ferran Mane = 51
• 5. The Adverse Impact of High-Stakes Testing on Minority Students : Evidence from One Hundred Years of Test Data / by George Madaus ; Marguerite Clarke = 85
• 6. Do High-Stakes Graduation Tests Improve Learning Outcomes? Using State-level NAEP Data to Evaluate the Effects of Mandatory Graduation Tests / by Monty Neill ; Keith Gayler = 107
• 7. The Harmful Impact of the TAAS System of Testing in Texas : Beneath the Accountability Rhetoric / by Linda McNeil ; Angela Valenzuela = 127
• 8. Should We End Social Promotion? Truth and Consequences / by Robert M. Hausert = 151
• 9. High-Stakes Testing and Civil Rights : Standards of Appropriate Test Use and a Strategy for Enforcing Them / by Jay P. Heubert = 179
• Notes = 195
• index = 237
• About the Contributors = 247