educational tests and measurements

Discusses standardized testing in schools and the controversy about its value as a tool, the history of testing, standards, and scoring, the No Child Left Behind Act, the effects on teaching, cheating among students and teachers, and public opinion about the topic.

Chronicles the history of the Educational Testing Service and discusses how it was created, why researchers believed it would help create a new class of intelligent Americans, how the plan backfired, and how it affected American history.

Presents a rationale for differentiated assessment and grading, discusses mastery, and provides guidance, ideas, and examples from middle and high school classrooms, as well as a guide for teacher leaders on supporting colleagues beginning differentiated assessment and grading.

An introduction to formative assessment that examines research supporting the method's effectiveness and presents step-by-step instructions for creating a framework for formative assessment in the classroom.

Provides an in-depth discussion on standardized testing by leading advocates and a challenge to critical thinking skills.

Contains eighteen articles that provide opposing viewpoints on questions of standardized testing, debating whether standardized testing increases learning, and whether standardized tests are beneficial to teachers and valuable for college admissions.

A collection of essays that provides varying perspectives on school reform, debating political issues, the role of standardized tests, testing to evaluate teachers and schools, and school choice.

Draws on eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and other sources to examine arguments for and against the use of standardized testing in American schools.

In the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the near future, where a standardized test determines each person's entire future, a powerful man runs a corrupt empire until seventeen-year-old Ann and other students take the lead in boycotting the test.