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Peer reviewedNoble, Audrey J.; Smith, Mary Lee – Educational Policy, 1994
Recent incorporation of a performance assessment in Arizona's test mandate provides an opportunity to examine the assumptions and beliefs underlying measurement-driven reform. Efforts to meld cognitive-constructivist beliefs about pupil learning and assessment contradict behaviorist beliefs about changing teachers and reforming schools. Mandates…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Misconceptions
