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3/10/2006
 
Rhode Island High School Diploma System: Lessons Learned from Implementation with Joe DiMartino, President, Center for Secondary School Redesign, Andrea Castaneda, Development Officer, Providence Public Schools, and Joe Maruszczak, Principal, Ponaganset High School (Forum brief)
1/7/2000
The Impact of High Stakes Testing Policies On Minority and Disadvantaged Students: Legal and Policy Implications of New Research, with Lauren Resnick, Director, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh; Linda McNeil, Director, Center for Education at Rice University; and Gary Natriello, Professor of Education, Columbia University; and Christopher Edley and Gary Orfield, Co-directors of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, and Jay Heubert, Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. (Forum Brief)
2/27/1998
The Retention and High Stakes Testing: Will They Result in Improvements in Urban Student Achievement? with Mitchell Chester, Executive Director of Accountability and Assessment for the School District of Philadelphia; Stephanie Robinson, Principal Partner, The Education Trust; Richard Wenning, Director of Educational Accountability, District of Columbia Public Schools; and Dennis Doyle, education consultant and writer. (Forum Brief)
6/2/1995
Myths about International Test Score Comparisons, with Iris Rotberg, Program Director for Research, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation. (Forum Brief)

Publications


View PDF 		THINKING ABOUT TESTS AND TESTING:   A Short Primer in "Assessment Literacy"
Are you confused about all the talk about tests and testing?  Do you know the difference between a norm-referenced test and a criterion-referenced test?  Here's a nonpartisan, objective discussion to help you understand the arguments now raging around education about "high-stakes tests" and their consequences.  If you have trouble understanding statistics, this book is for you.  Simple, straightforward, and very useful.