High-stakes testing - value, fairness and consequences

Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-6

  Stobart, Gordon ^a   Eggen, Theo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84858317694     PISSN: 0969594X     EISSN: 1465329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0969594X.2012.639191     Document Type: Article

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