Alternative aaproaches to high-stakes testing

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 429-432

  Lederman, Leon M ^a,b   Burnstein, Ray A ^c  

^a ILLINOIS MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 33644792898     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170608700606     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. W. James Popham, "Standardized Achievement Tests: Misnamed and Misleading," Education Week, 19 September 2001, p. 46.
2. See, for example, W. James Popham, "The Trouble with Testing: Why Standards Based Assessment Doesn't Measure Up," American School Board Journal, February 2003, pp. 14-17.
3. The American Psychological Association's testing guidelines are available at www.apa.org/pubinfo/testing.html.
4. Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross, Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993).
5. Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam, "Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment," Phi Delta Kappan, October 1998, pp. 139-49.
6. Richard R. Hake, "Interactive Engagement vs. Traditional Methods: A Six-Thousand-Student Survey of Mechanics Test Data for Introductory Physics Courses," American Journal of Physics, January 1998, pp. 64-74.
7. Ray A. Burnstein and Leon M. Lederman, "Interactive Lectures: Keeping Students Involved in a Lecture Course," AAPT Announcer, July 1995, p. 80;
8. Ray A. Burnstein and Leon M. Lederman, idem, "Report on Progress in Using a Wireless Keypad Response System," in Edward F. Redish and John S. Rigden, eds., The Changing Role of Physics Departments in Modern Universities: Proceedings of the International Conference on Undergraduate Physics Education (College Park, Md.: American Institute of Physics, Conference Proceedings No. 399, October 1997), pp. 531-37.
9. For more information on the pedagogical value of ESRS, see Ray A. Burnstein and Leon M. Lederman, "Using Wireless Keypads in Lecture Classes," Physics Teacher, January 2001, pp. 8-11 ;
10. and H. Arthur Woods and Charles Chiu, "Wireless Response Technology in College Classrooms," The Technology Source, September/October 2003, available at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id= 1034.
11. Eric Mazur, Peer Instruction: A User's Manual (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1996).
12. Benjamin S. Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (New York: Longmans, Green, 1956).