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Download full textTanner, David E. – 2003
One dimension of the current educational reform movement made testing teacher candidates a fixture in nearly every state. The companion problem is that standardized test scores often correlate with the test-takers ethnicity and gender. Such an outcome appears to place teacher competency interests in competition with egalitarian interests. Is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity, Preservice Teacher Education
