How Testing Came To Dominate American Schools
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How Testing Came To Dominate American Schools
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Author : Gerard Giordano
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2005
How Testing Came To Dominate American Schools written by Gerard Giordano and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Education categories.
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 military leaders, businesspeople, and scholastic publishers while their adversaries appealed to job seekers, college applicants, racial minorities, and anti-establishmentarians. This book illustrates how all of these parties showed interest; many became passionate; and some decisively influenced the course of American educational testing.
An Age Of Accountability
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Author : John L. Rury
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-13
An Age Of Accountability written by John L. Rury and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-13 with Education categories.
An Age of Accountability highlights the role of test-based accountability as a policy framework in American education from 1970 to 2020. For more than half a century, the quest to hold schools and educators accountable for academic achievement has relied almost exclusively on standardized assessment. The theory of change embedded in almost all test-based accountability programs held that assessment with stipulated consequences could lead to major improvements in schools. This was accomplished politically by proclaiming lofty goals of attaining universal proficiency and closing achievement gaps, which repeatedly failed to materialize. But even after very clear disappointments, no other policy framework has emerged to challenge its hegemony. The American public today has little confidence in institutions to improve the quality of goods and services they provide, especially in the public sector. As a consequence, many Americans continue to believe that accountability remains a vital necessity, even if educators and policy scholars disagree.
Testing In American Schools
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Testing In American Schools written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Educational tests and measurements categories.
Common Sense Questions About School Administration
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Author : Gerard Giordano
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-03-06
Common Sense Questions About School Administration written by Gerard Giordano and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-06 with Education categories.
Parents have questions for school administrators. They want to know how they hire teachers, erect facilities, select learning materials, protect students, allocate budgets, use data, make forecasts, measure progress, and compete with for-profit schools. This book examines the questions they pose, the answers they elicit, the allies they attract, the adversaries they arouse, and the improvements they prod.
Handbook Of Social Influences In School Contexts
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Author : Kathryn R. Wentzel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-01-13
Handbook Of Social Influences In School Contexts written by Kathryn R. Wentzel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-13 with Education categories.
The Handbook of Social Influences in School Contexts draws from a growing body of research on how and why various aspects of social relationships and contexts contribute to children’s social and academic functioning within school settings. Comprised of the latest studies in developmental and educational psychology, this comprehensive volume is perfect for researchers and students of Educational Psychology. Beginning with the theoretical perspectives that guide research on social influences, this book presents foundational research before moving on to chapters on peer influence and teacher influence. Next, the book addresses ways in which the school context can influence school-related outcomes (including peer and teacher-student relationships) with specific attention to research in motivation and cognition. Within the chapters authors not only present current research but also explore best-practices, drawing in examples from the classroom. With chapters from leading experts in the field, The Handbook of Social Influences in School Contexts provides the first complete resource on this topic.
Collateral Damage
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Author : Sharon L. Nichols
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Release Date : 2007-03-01
Collateral Damage written by Sharon L. Nichols and has been published by Harvard Education Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-01 with Education categories.
Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system. For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate and provocative book provides a fresh perspective on the issue and powerful ammunition for opponents of high-stakes tests. Their analysis is grounded in the application of Campbell’s Law, which posits that the greater the social consequences associated with a quantitative indicator (such as test scores), the more likely it is that the indicator itself will become corrupted—and the more likely it is that the use of the indicator will corrupt the social processes it was intended to monitor. Nichols and Berliner illustrate both aspects of this “corruption,” showing how the pressures of high-stakes testing erode the validity of test scores and distort the integrity of the education system. Their analysis provides a coherent and comprehensive intellectual framework for the wide-ranging arguments against high-stakes testing, while putting a compelling human face on the data marshalled in support of those arguments.
American Special Education
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Author : Gerard Giordano
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
American Special Education written by Gerard Giordano and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education categories.
This book is an account of the epic struggle for special education in America's schools. It chronicles the actions of community leaders, families, caregivers, instructors, physicians, scientists, lawyers, judges, lawmakers, businesspersons, journalists, social activists, and persons with disabilities. It details the creation of facilities in which special learners would be safe, productive, independent, respected, and self-fulfilled. The book discusses techniques for assessing the presence, scope, and etiology of disabilities. Finally, American Special Education describes novel, sometimes expensive, and frequently controversial interventions, and places each development within the remarkable confluence of social and political circumstances that propelled the transformation of special education.
Handbook Of Research On Educational Leadership For Equity And Diversity
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Author : Linda C. Tillman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-21
Handbook Of Research On Educational Leadership For Equity And Diversity written by Linda C. Tillman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with Education categories.
The rapid growth of diversity within U.S. schooling and the heightened attention to the lack of equity in student achievement, school completion, and postsecondary attendance has made equity and diversity two of the principle issues in education, educational leadership, and educational leadership research. The Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity is the first research-based handbook that comprehensively addresses the broad diversity in U.S. schools by race, ethnicity, culture, language, gender, disability, sexual identity, and class. The Handbook both highly values the critically important strengths and assets that diversity brings to the United States and its schools, yet at the same time candidly critiques the destructive deficit thinking, biases, and prejudices that undermine school success for many groups of students. Well-known chapter authors explore diversity and related inequities in schools and the achievement problems these issues present to school leaders. Each chapter reviews theoretical and empirical evidence of these inequities and provides research-based recommendations for practice and for future research. Celebrating the broad diversity in U.S. schools, the Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity critiques the inequities connected to that diversity, and provides evidence-based practices to promote student success for all children.
Cockeyed Education
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Author : Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education, University of North Florida
language : en
Publisher: R&L Education
Release Date : 2010-01-16
Cockeyed Education written by Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education, University of North Florida and has been published by R&L Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-16 with Education categories.
This book enables readers to differentiate substantive from cockeyed suggestions for improving schools.. It directs them to the suggestions that scholastic experts, politicians, and members of the public have made.
Teachers Go To Rehab
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Author : Gerard Giordano
language : en
Publisher: R&L Education
Release Date : 2012
Teachers Go To Rehab written by Gerard Giordano and has been published by R&L Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Education categories.
Teachers Go to Rehab examines the advice given to teachers from multiple critics both historically and recently. This book looks at the scope, cost, and impact of this advice to teachers, as well as the motives behind it. It poses precise questions about the groups that gave the advice. Who were they? What did they recommend? How did they estimate impact? How did they calculate costs? What aims did they profess? What aims did they conceal? Whom did they attract? Whom did they alienate? When did they succeed? When did they fail?