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ERIC Number: EJ306469
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Standardized Testing: A Call for Action.
Langer, Judith A.; Pradl, Gordon M.
Language Arts, v61 n7 p764-67 Nov 1984
Discusses (1) perspectives from which standardized test developers, users, and interpreters must consider test results; (2) test components that affect student test performance; (3) test abuses that contribute to the shortening of tests; and (4) how educators can effect a change in the increased reliance on standardized tests. (HTH)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Objective Tests, Standardized Tests, Student Evaluation, Test Construction, Test Interpretation, Test Validity, Testing Problems
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Note: Theme Issue: Teacher as Learner/Researcher.