When learning no longer matters: Standardized testing and the creation of inequality

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 502-506

  Boaler, J O ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 25844452991     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170308400706     Document Type: Review

References (4)

1. Jo Boaler, "When Do Girls Prefer Football to Fashion? An Analysis of Female Underachievement in Relation to 'Realistic' Mathematics Contexts," British Educational Research Journal, vol. 20, 1994, pp. 551-64;
2. Barry Cooper and Mairead Dunne, "Anyone for Tennis? Social Class Differences in Children's Responses to National Curriculum Mathematics Testing," Sociological Review, January 1998, pp. 115-48;
3. and Robyn Zevenbergen, " 'Cracking the Code' of Mathematics Classrooms: School Success as a Function of Linguistic, Social, and Cultural Background," in Jo Boaler, ed., Multiple Perspectives on Mathematics Teaching and Learning (Westport, Conn.: Ablex Publishing, 2000), pp. 201-24.
4. Claude Steele, "A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance," American Psychologist, vol. 52, 1997, pp. 613-29.