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A Short History of High-Stakes Testing, Arguments For and Against Its Use, Its Place in Contemporary Society, and a Brief Introduction to Campbell's Law | p. 1 |
The Prevalence and Many Forms of Cheating and the Problem of Absolute and Relativistic Standards for Judging Such Occurrences | p. 33 |
Excluding Students from Education by Design and by Neglect, the Crisis of Caring in Our Schools, and the Special Case of the "Bubble Kids" | p. 57 |
States Cheat Too! How Statistical Trickery and Misrepresentation of Data Mislead the Public | p. 79 |
What Happens to Validity When Indicators Are Distorted and Corrupted, the Many Ways That High-Stakes Testing Promotes Such Distortion and Corruption, and How Those Practices Lead to Confusion About What Test Scores Mean | p. 109 |
How High-Stakes Testing Undermines Public Education and the Teaching Profession While Also Destroying Both Teacher and Student Morale | p. 145 |
We Conclude That High-Stakes Testing Provides Perfect Conditions for Campbell's Law to Operate, Ignores Standards for Professional Conduct and Appropriate Test Use, and Is Unnecessary Because Alternative Systems of Accountability Exist | p. 175 |
Notes | p. 203 |
About the Authors | p. 225 |
Index | p. 227 |
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