Test driven: high-stakes accountability in elementary schools

by Valli, Linda

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Title Statements

Full title :Test driven : high-stakes accountability in elementary schools / Linda Valli [and others].

Summary

"I don't always know [students] by face; I know them by data," an elementary curriculum specialist explains ruefully in this broad examination of how No Child Left Behind impacts schools and shapes teaching practice. Capturing the changes teachers are experiencing, especially in the areas of mathematics and reading, the authors compare and contrast three schools with diverse student populations according to school norms and structures, professional roles and responsibilities, curriculum, staff development, and teaching and learning. Including rich observational data and personal accounts from educators, this inside look at school reform: analyzes the effects of policies from multiple levels, examining relationships among initiatives at the federal, state, district, and local school levels; focuses on the impact that high-stakes testing policies have on reading and mathematics instruction in 4th and 5th grades; and provides teacher and principal perspectives on factors that influence how practitioners make sense of, mediate, and construct school policy. --Publisher description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Teachers College Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2008.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 198 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780807748954, 0807748951, 9780807748947, 0807748943
oclc:ocn191882016
LC Classification:LB3051
Dewey Decimal:372.126

Overview -- Creating test-taking cultures -- Becoming test managers -- Subordinating the official curriculum -- Aligning teacher learning with student testing -- Eroding quality teaching -- Weathering high-stakes accountability.

Subjects

Écoles primaires -- Examens. -- États-U… Education -- Standards -- United States Educational change -- United States Educational tests and measurements Educational tests and measurements -- U… Elementary schools -- Examinations Elementary schools -- Examinations. -- … Grundschule Schulleistungsmessung Tests et mesures en éducation -- États-… United States USA