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The road to folly and redemption: Perspectives on the legitimacy of high‐stakes testing
Author(s) -
Afflerbach Peter
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
reading research quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1936-2722
pISSN - 0034-0553
DOI - 10.1598/rrq.37.3.5
Subject(s) - meritocracy , standardized test , legitimacy , test (biology) , reading (process) , power (physics) , psychology , sociology , mathematics education , law , political science , politics , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Book reviewed in this article: The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy . By Nicolas Lemann. 1999. The Limits of Educational Assessment . By Andrew Davis. 1998. A Teacher's Guide to Standardized Reading Tests: Knowledge Is Power . By Lucy Calkins, Kate Montgomery, and Donna Santman with Beverly Falk. 1998.