The Effects of Standardized Testing

✍ Scribed by Thomas Kellaghan, George F. Madaus, Peter W. Airasian (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1982
Tongue: English
Leaves: 294
Series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 1
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

When George Bernard Shaw wrote his play, Pygmalion, he could hardly have foreseen the use of the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in debates about standardized testing in schools. Still less could he have foreseen that the validity of the concept would be examined many years later in Irish schools. While the primary purpose of the experimental study reported in this book was not to investigate the Pygmalion effect, it is inconceivable that a study of the effects of standardized testing, conceived in the 1960s and planned and executed in the 1970s, would not have been influenced by thinking about teachers' expectations and the influence of test information on the formation of those expectations. While our study did pay special attention to teacher expectations, its scope was much wider. It was planned and carried out in a much broader framework, one in which we set out to examine the impact of a standardized testing program, not just on teachers, but also on school practices, students, and students' parents.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
The Effects of Standardized Testing: Controversy and Research ....Pages 1-18
An Experimental Study of the Effects of Standardized Testing: Design and Implementation ....Pages 19-38
Effects of Testing on Schools....Pages 39-61
Effects of Testing on Teachers....Pages 62-130
Effects of Testing on Pupils....Pages 131-158
Expectancy Effects: The Role of Test Information ....Pages 159-200
Effects of Testing on Parents....Pages 201-207
Alternative Treatments....Pages 208-239
Conclusion....Pages 240-261
Back Matter....Pages 263-284

✦ Subjects

Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Education (general)

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