Some Comments on Assessment in U.S. Education

Creator

Robert Stake

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

July 1998

Abstract

We do not know much about what assessment has accomplished but we know it has not brought about the reform of American Education. The costs and benefits of large scale mandated achievement testing are too complex to be persuasively reported. Therefore, educational policy needs to be based more on deliberated interpretations of assessment, experience, and ideology. Evaluation of assessment consequences, however inconclusive, has an important role to play in the deliberations.

Keywords

Educational evaluation

Extent

8

Volume

6

Issue

14

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

E11-00105

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Recommended Citation

Stake, Robert, "Some Comments on Assessment in U.S. Education" (1998). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 18.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/18