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Three Great Reads on High-Stakes Standardized Tests - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

Three Great Reads on High-Stakes Standardized Tests - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

Three Great Reads on High-Stakes Standardized Tests

Three highly recommended reads on this subject are:

1) FairTest.org

51+GsWVm43L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg2) The book, "Measuring Up - What Educational Testing Really Tells Us" by Daniel Koretz, Professor of Education at Harvard University. Written for a layperson to understand, every parent and educator should read this book, winner of the outstanding book award, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. An excerpt:

"Achievement testing is a very complex enterprise, and as a result, test scores are widely misunderstood and misused. And


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