The Effects of High-Stakes Testing
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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 has been edited for clarity and differs in minor ways from the version originally presented.
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