Inflated Test Score Gains: Is the Problem Old Norms or Teaching the Test?.

Shepard, Lorrie A.

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Publication Date: 1990

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Inflated Test Score Gains: Is the Problem Old Norms or Teaching the Test?

Shepard, Lorrie A.

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, v9 n3 p15-22 Fall 1990

Results of a 1987 report indicating that elementary students of all states were above the national average are assessed. Issues addressed include teaching for standardized tests, the effect of teaching on national norms, and alternatives available to protect the integrity of instruction and the validity of normed test scores. (TJH)

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, National Norms, Norm Referenced Tests, Standardized Tests, State Programs, Teaching Methods, Test Coaching, Test Interpretation, Test Validity, Testing Problems, Testing Programs

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