High-Stakes Testing

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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes three articles on high-stakes testing. Specifically, the paper reviews the three articles and explains how the articles changed the author's personal views on the effectiveness and value of high-stakes testing.

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"What is the purpose of educational testing? Ostensibly, it exists to measure a student's progress throughout the school year, but it can also be a measure of the educator and district's success in passing on information from educator to learner. Most parents and professionals want some measure of proof that their children are receiving a quality education that can carry them into the future, and testing helps assess and prove these educational goals. However, often so much importance is placed on test results, that often the student and their needs are overlooked in the process. The introduction of so called "high-stakes" testing to determine if a child should move on to the next grade or graduate has come under fire from many critics for a number of reasons, including the accuracy of the tests themselves, and their ability to correctly measure a student's educational progress. In addition, many critics questioned whether one, high-stakes test could really begin to measure both teacher and student success."

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