Test anxiety: Are students failing tests - Or are tests failing students?

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Sadker, David ^a   Zittleman, Karen ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942668477     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170408501007     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Adapred from Myra Sadker and David Sadker, "Standards Back Then," in idem, Teachers, Schools, and Society, 6th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003), pp. 268-69.
2. Jay Heubert, "First, Do No Harm," Educational Leadership, December 2002/January 2003, pp. 26-30; Linda M. McNeil, "Creating New Inequalities: Contradictions of School Reform," Phi Delta Kappan, June 2000, pp. 728-34; and John Merrow, "Undermining Standards," Phi Delta Kappan, May 2001, pp. 653-59.
3. Jay Heubert, "First, Do No Harm," Educational Leadership, December 2002/January 2003, pp. 26-30; Linda M. McNeil, "Creating New Inequalities: Contradictions of School Reform," Phi Delta Kappan, June 2000, pp. 728-34; and John Merrow, "Undermining Standards," Phi Delta Kappan, May 2001, pp. 653-59.
4. Jay Heubert, "First, Do No Harm," Educational Leadership, December 2002/January 2003, pp. 26-30; Linda M. McNeil, "Creating New Inequalities: Contradictions of School Reform," Phi Delta Kappan, June 2000, pp. 728-34; and John Merrow, "Undermining Standards," Phi Delta Kappan, May 2001, pp. 653-59.
5. Quality Counts 2001: A Better Balance (Bethesda, Md.: Editorial Projects in Education, 11 January 2001).
6. James Hoffman, Lori Czop, and Scott Paris, "High-Stakes Testing in Reading: Today in Texas, Tomorrow?," Reading Teacher, vol. 54, 2001, pp. 482-92.
7. Quality Counts 2001.
8. Huffman, Czop, und Paris, op. cit.
9. Audrey Amrein and David Berliner, "High-Stakes Testing, Uncer-tainty, and Student Learning," Education Policy Analysis Archives, March 2002, http://epan.asu.edu/epaa/v10n18/.
10. Monty Neill, "The Dangers of Testing," Educational Leadership, February 2003, pp. 43-46.
11. Alfie Kohn, The Case Against Standardized Jesting: Raising Scores and Ruining Schools (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2000).
12. Amrein and Berliner, op. cit.
13. Heubert, op. cit.; McNeil, op. cit.; and Neill, op. cit.
14. Heubert, op. cit.; McNeil, op. cit.; and Neill, op. cit.
15. Heubert, op. cit.; McNeil, op. cit.; and Neill, op. cit.
16. Norman Draper, "Testing Firm to Pay Students $7 Million for Grade Goof," Star Tribune Online, 26 November 2002.
17. Diana B. Henriques, "Rising Demands for Testing Push Limits of Its Accuracy," New York Times, 2 September 2003.
18. Neill, op. cit.
19. Heubert, op. cit.
20. Amrein and Berliner, op. cit.; Heubert, op. cit.; and Neill, op. cit.
21. Amrein and Berliner, op. cit.; Heubert, op. cit.; and Neill, op. cit.
22. Amrein and Berliner, op. cit.; Heubert, op. cit.; and Neill, op. cit.
23. Derrick Jackson, "At Best, Silly, At Worst, Racist," in Kathy Swopes and Barbara Miner, eds., Failing Our Kids: Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools (Milwaukee: Rethinking Schools, 2000), pp. 18-19.
24. N. R. Kleinfield, "The Elderly Man and the Sea? Test Sanitizes Literary Texts," New York Times, 2 June 2002.
25. David Hoff, "Standards at Crossroads After Decade," Education Week, 22 September 1999, pp. 1, 9.
26. Quality Counts 2001.
27. John Goodlad, "Kudzu, Rabbits, and School Reform," Phi Delta Kappan, September 2002, pp. 16-23.
28. Tirupalavanam Ganesh, "Educators' Images of High-Stakes Testing: An Exploratory Analysis of the Value of Visual Methods." paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, 2002. To see the teachers' drawings, visit Ganesh's website at http://ganesh.ed.asu.edu/aims.