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Publication Date: 2006-Feb
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High Stakes Testing and the Structure of the Mind: A Reply to Randall Curren
Davis, Andrew
Journal of Philosophy of Education, v40 n1 p1-16 Feb 2006
"High stakes testing" is to be understood as testing with serious consequences for students, their teachers and their educational institutions. It plays a central role in holding teachers and educational institutions to account. In a recent article Randall Curren seeks to refute a number of philosophical arguments developed in my "The Limits of Educational Assessment" against the legitimacy of high stakes testing. In this reply I contend that some of the arguments he identifies are not mine, and that others survive his critique.
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Philosophy, Reader Response, Review (Reexamination), Misconceptions, Rhetorical Criticism
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