High-stakes testing and students: Stopping or perpetuating a cycle of failure?

Theory into Practice

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-41

  Horn, Catherine ^a  

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EID: 0037412825     PISSN: 00405841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15430421tip4201_5     Document Type: Article

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