Relationships between high-stakes testing policies and student achievement after controlling for demographic factors in aggregated data

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 14, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-31

  Marchant, Gregory J ^a   Paulson, Sharon E ^a   Shunk, Adam ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic standards; Educational policy; Evaluation; High stakes tests; National competency tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751206177     PISSN: 10682341     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v14n30.2006     Document Type: Article

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