RESOUR> Some Web Resources and Publications About High Stakes Testing

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Teaching To Standards
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/standards.html>
[Large group of links on range of related topics]

Objections Over State Testing Are Widespread
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/testing.html>

The Impact of High Stakes Testing Policies on
Minority and Disadvantaged Students: A Forum Brief  January 7, 2000
[American Youth Policy Forum]
<http://www.aypf.org/forumbriefs/2000/fb010700.htm>

Appropriate Use of High-Stakes Testing in Our Nation's Schools
<http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/testing.html>

The Development and Impact of High Stakes Testing
Gary Natriello  Teachers College, Columbia University
Aaron M. Pallas Michigan State University November 1998
<http://www.columbia.edu/~gjn6/histake.html>

Fast Facts #2
High Stakes Testing
<http://www.mnea.org/teach/ff-histakes.htm>
Missouri National Education Association: Overview of HST in Missouri

Accountability, Incentives And Behavior: The Impact Of High-Stakes Testing
in the Chicago Public Schools
http://www.educationnext.org/unabridged/20031/jacob.pdf.

Policy Brief:  April 2000
High-Stakes Testing: Trends and Issues by Anne Lewis
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
<http://www.mcrel.org/PDFConversion/PolicyBriefs/PB_HighStakesTesting.html>

High-stakes testing: Will it pass or fail?
<http://www.weac.org/Resource/1998-99/april99/testing1.htm>

Court Rules for High-Stakes Testing: Winter 1999-2000
<http://www.fairtest.org/examarts/winter00/
Court_Rules_For_High-Stakes_Testing.html>

January 5, 2000
Studies Find High Stakes Tests Threaten Disadvantaged Students in Texas
Harvard Graduate School of Education
<http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/features/highstakes01052000.html>

Large Scale Assessments and High Stakes Decisions: Facts, Cautions and
Guidelines
<http://www.naspcenter.org/factsheets/highstakes_fs.html>

Education Policy Analysis Archives
Volume 10 Number 18 March 28, 2002 ISSN 1068-2341
High-Stakes Testing, Uncertainty, and Student Learning
Citation: Amrein, A.L. & Berliner, D.C. (2002, March 28). High-stakes
testing, uncertainty, and student learning Education Policy Analysis
Archives, 10(18). Retrieved [date] from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n18/
<http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n18/>

High Stakes Testing In K-12 Schools: An Annotated Bibliography
Test Development And Administration Focus
<http://www.eval.org/hst.test.htm>

Growing opposition to "high-stakes" testing in US schools
By Kate Randall: 25 July 2001
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jul2001/test-j25.shtml>

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Here are a few published articles on high stakes testing that may be found
in a library near you.

Reform by Shame: Managing the Stigma of Labels in High Stakes Testing.
Author: Murillo, Enrique G., Jr.; Flores, Susana Y.
Source: Educational Foundations
v. 16  no. 2  Spring 2002  p. 93-108

Making the Connection: Assessment and Accountability.
Author: Helm, Claire M. Source: Momentum (Washington, D.C.)
v. 33  no. 3  September/October 2002  p. 6

Making the global city, making inequality: the political economy and
cultural politics of Chicago school policy.
Author: Lipman, Pauline.
Source: American Educational Research Journal
v. 39  no. 2  Summer 2002  p. 379-419

Teaching the culture of high stakes testing: listening to new teachers.
Author: Costigan, Arthur T., 3rd. Source: Action in Teacher Education
v. 23  no. 4  Winter 2002  p. 28-34

The human face of the high-stakes testing story.
Author: Nathan, Linda.
Source: Phi Delta Kappan  v. 83  no. 8  April 2002  p. 595-600

High stakes testing and expected progress standards for students with
learning disabilities: a five-year study of one district.
Author: Schulte, Ann C.; Villwock, Diane N.; Whichard, S. Michelle.
Source: The School Psychology Review  v. 30  no. 4  2001  p. 487-506

Radical dilemmas in the anti-high-stakes-testing movement.
Author: Fox, Dennis.
Source: Radical Teacher  no. 61  2001  p. 28-35

The challenge of curricular and instructional improvement in an era of
high stakes testing.
Author: Clark, Sally N.; Clark, Donald C.
Source: Middle School Journal  v. 33  no. 2  November 2001  p. 52-6

Standards and high stakes testing: the dark side of a generation of
political, economic and social neglect of public education.
Author: Marker, Perry.
Source: Theory and Research in Social Education
v. 29  no. 2  Spring 2001  p. 357-62

Special education and high stakes testing for high school graduation: an
analysis of current law and policy.
Author: O'Neill, Paul T.
Source: Journal of Law & Education
v. 30  no .2  April 2001  p. 185-222

The missing link: Latinos and educational opportunity programs.
Author: Lopez, Nancy.
Source: Equity & Excellence in Education
v. 33  no. 3  December 2000  p. 53-8

Rethinking "high stakes": lessons from the United States and England and
Wales.
Author: Firestone, William A.; Mayrowetz, David.
Source: Teachers College Record  v. 102  no. 4  August 2000  p. 724-49

High-stakes assessments in reading: a position statement of the
International Reading Association.
Source: The Reading Teacher  v. 53  no. 3  November 1999  p. 257-63

Performance assessment and education reform.
Author: Haertel, Edward H.
Source: Phi Delta Kappan  v. 80  no. 9 May 1999  p. 662-6

Loss of the creature: The obscuring of inclusivity in classroom discourse
Author: Rex, Lesley A
Source: Communication Education  v. 52  no. 1 January 2003  p. 30-46

The hazards of high-stakes testing
Author: Shepard, Lorrie A
Source: Issues in Science & Technology
v. 19  no. 2  Winter 2002/2003  p. 53-58

High Stakes: Children, Testing, and Failure in American Schools
Author: Anonymous
Source: Education Week  v.22  no. 7  October 16, 2002  p. 36
[Book Review]

Cognitive skills, test scores, and social stratification: The role of
family and school-level resources on racial/ethnic differences in scores
on standardized tests (AFQT)
Author: Cordero-Guzman, Hector R
Source: Review of Black Political Economy
v. 28  no. 4  Spring 2001  p. 31-71

The effect of training in test item writing on test performance of junior
high students
Author: Tunks, Jeanne
Source: Educational Studies  v. 27  no. 2  June 2001  p. 129-142

High stakes: Testing for tracking, promotion, and graduation
Author: Phelps, Richard P
Source: Educational & Psychological Measurement
v. 60  no. 6  December 2000  p. 992-999

An ethnographic study of the effects of legislated high stakes testing on
the curriculum landscape of public schools in Texas, Massachusetts, and
New York:  Author: Daniels, Lisa Maria. Publication: Ann Arbor, Mich. :
UMI, 2002 [Dissertation]

The new accountability high schools and high stakes testing
Author: Carnoy, Martin.; Elmore, Richard F.
Publication: New York : Routledge, 2003

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High stakes testing : the impact of curriculum and socioeconomic status
on standardized test results   Author: Savala, Jerrod C. Publication: 2002
[Dissertation]

Racial profiling and punishment in U.S. public schools : how zero
tolerance policies and high stakes testing subvert academic excellece and
racial equity
http://www.arc.org/erase/downloads/profiling.pdf

Racial profiling and punishment in U.S. public schools : how zero
tolerance policies and high stakes testing subvert academic excellece and
racial equity
http://www.arc.org/erase/downloads/profiling.pdf

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