Testing high-stakes tests: Can we believe the results of accountability tests?

Teachers College Record

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1124-1144

  Greene, Jay P ^a   Winters, Marcus A ^a   Forster, Greg ^a  

^a Manhattan Inst for Policy Research   (United States)

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EID: 3142779884     PISSN: 01614681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9620.2004.00374.x     Document Type: Article

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