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The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators through High-Stakes Testing. Executive Summary
Download full textNichols, Sharon L.; Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This research provides lengthy proof of a principle of social science known as Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." Applying…
Descriptors: Cheating, Dropouts, High Stakes Tests, Social Indicators
Nichols, Sharon L.; Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This research provides lengthy proof of a principle of social science known as Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." Applying…
Descriptors: Cheating, Dropouts, High Stakes Tests, Social Indicators
