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High-stakes lobbying campaigns that were concentrated on Capitol Hill last year have scattered to federal offices across the city.
SEC grapples with task of purging credit ratings from rules for money-market funds 2011
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High-stakes testing in higher education and employment: Appraising the evidence for validity and fairness.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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High-stakes testing produces curriculum narrowing and teaching to the test, the opposite of what our children really need.
Reduce standardized testing to improve accountability, school quality Valerie Strauss 2010
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High-stakes testing in higher education and employment: Appraising the evidence for validity and fairness.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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High-stakes lobbying campaigns that were concentrated on Capitol Hill last year have scattered to federal offices across the city.
SEC grapples with task of purging credit ratings from rules for money-market funds 2011
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High-stakes test scores may not be telling us everything we want to know, because some students miss out on the opportunity to get ready for the test, which limits their ability to perform at their best when it counts the most.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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High-stakes situations can affect performance whether you have a pencil or golf club in your hand, but the reason you choke depends on the characteristics of the task and on you yourself.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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High-stakes test scores may not be telling us everything we want to know, because some students miss out on the opportunity to get ready for the test, which limits their ability to perform at their best when it counts the most.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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High-stakes testing seems to have a disproportionately negative impact on low-income children whose schools can be like the educational equivalent of the urban “food desert.”
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High-stakes consequences, such as dismissal, shouldn't be tied to an unproven evaluation system, they argue.
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