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Price also opposes the “high-stakes?? test and suggests offering “local diplomas” to students who do not pass the MCAS, he said...
While his work focuses more broadly on measurements of educational achievement, Koretz’s work has a specific focus on so-called “high-stakes?? testing, like the Massachusetts MCAS exams or the New York Regents exam. This field has been the subject of widespread controversy in recent years...
...national level by President Bush—to hold teachers accountable for the performance of their students through testing and even to hold students back unless they can successfully pass tests. Using testing for such important decisions is often referred to as “high-stakes?? testing...
Koretz’s research has shown that under such “high-stakes?? circumstances the scores on tests rise quickly and that there is often a “substantial inflation” of scores...