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Peer reviewedDarling-Hammond, Linda – Educational Policy, 1992
Examines the use of educational indicators to serve educational policy ends, the potential benefits and dangers of various uses, and how to forge guidelines for appropriate relationships between indicators and policy. Indicators should not be used as administrative controls or policy levers, but to illuminate educational activities and processes…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Decision Making, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
