Accountability and Access to Opportunity: Mutually Exclusive Tenets under a High-Stakes Testing Mandate.

Albrecht, Susan Fread; Joles, Candace

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ERIC Number: EJ666169

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Accountability and Access to Opportunity: Mutually Exclusive Tenets under a High-Stakes Testing Mandate.

Albrecht, Susan Fread; Joles, Candace

Preventing School Failure, v47 n2 p86-91 Win 2003

This article examines the undesirable social and vocational ramifications associated with the use of a single high-stakes test to assess the academic proficiencies of students with disabilities and the present discriminatory nature of the required performance on one standardized exam. Alternative assessments are discussed. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests, Testing Problems

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Special Issue: Policy and the Education of Children.