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How Testing Came to Dominate American Schools: The History of Educational Assessment

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Although originally designed as instruments to gauge students' progress, tests eventually were used to modify curricula, learning materials, pedagogy, and many practical features of schooling. Tests were employed to shape attitudes toward national issues such as employment, immigration, and defense. Worried about the enormous consequences that were at stake, advocates and opponents pitched their cases to educators, parents, journalists, and policymakers and also targeted special audiences. Testing proponents pleaded with ...

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How Testing Came to Dominate American Schools: The History of Educational Assessment 2005, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

ISBN-13: 9780820472553

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