Testing, Stress, and Performance: How Students Respond Physiologically to High-Stakes Testing

High-Stakes Testing

I review the literature on the impact on student achievement of high-stakes testing. Its popularity as a mechanism for holding educators accountable has triggered studies to examine whether its promise to increase student learning has been fulfilled. The review concludes there is no consistent evidence to suggest high-stakes testing leads to increases in student learning. Some evidence suggests...

Gender, Spatial Ability, and High-Stakes Testing

Researchers disagree on the relationships between gender, spatial ability and math achievement. Varied results from studies using different measures and populations fuel the debate. The present study adds to the gender-spatial-math literature by examining this relationship in the context of high-stakes math testing. Results indicate no gender effect on spatial ability or math achievement, and a...

(Over and) beyond high-stakes testing.

tions–treatments,” is there a misnomer? American Psychologist, 64, 275–276. Silverstein, L. B., & Auerbach, C. F. (2009). Using qualitative research to develop culturally competent evidence-based practice. American Psychologist, 64, 274–275. Tryon, W. W. (2009). Missing mechanism information. American Psychologist, 64, 273–274. Wolpe, J. (1958). Psychotherapy by reciprocal inhibition. Stanford,...

The Effects of High-Stakes Testing

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Originally presented in R. L. Linn (Chair), Effects of High-Stakes Educational Testing on Instruction and Achievement, symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association and the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, April 5, 1991. This paper...

The Distortion of Teaching and Testing: High-Stakes Testing and Instruction