TY - BOOK ID - 78139760 TI - High-stakes testing : coping with collateral damage PY - 2005 SN - 1410612805 9781410612809 0805855211 080585522X 9781135601690 9781135601737 9781135601744 9780805855210 9780805855227 1135601739 PB - Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, DB - UniCat KW - Educational tests and measurements KW - Education KW - Evaluation. KW - Standards KW - Pedagogiek en onderwijskunde KW - didactische theorieën. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78139760 AB - The federal government's No Child Left Behind Act has thrust high-stakes testing - its goals, methods, and consequences - into the educational limelight. The four-fold purpose of this book is to: describe the nature of high-stakes testing; identify types of collateral damage that have attended the testing programs; analyze methods different groups of people have chosen for coping with the damage and suggest lessons to be learned from the high-stakes-testing experience. The six groups of people whose coping strategies are inspected include: politicians and their staffs; educational ad ER -