The Role and Importance of Standardized Testing in the World of Teaching and Training

• Main Author: Richard P. PHELPS
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nonpartisan Education Group 2008-03-01
• Series: Nonpartisan Education Review
• Subjects: education; policy; psychology; scientific test; educational achievement; educational improvement; effect of tests; consequences of tests; testing; high-stakes; education accountability; test-based accountability; teachers; open-source platform; NCLB; No Child Left Behind; teacher grades; classroom grading; Bayes; objective tests
• Online Access: http://www.nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v4n3.htm
• ISSN: 2150-6477

Paper presented at the 15th Congress of the World Association for Educational Research, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco, June 3, 2008