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EJ464906 UD517275
Title: Flunk'em or Get Them Classified: The Contamination of Primary Grade Accountability Data.Author(s): McGill-Franzen, Anne; Allington, Richard L.
Source: Educational Researcher, v22 n1 p19-22 Jan-Feb 1993
Publication Date: 1993
ISSN: 0013-189X
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Evaluative (142)
Journal Announcement: CIJOCT1993
Argues that
high-stakes primary grade testing increases pressure on low-achieving
schools to improve test performance and increases chances that low
achieving children will be retained in grade or classified as handicapped.
It is suggested that current practices be modified to eliminate
motives to engage in such placement practices. (SLD)
Descriptors: *Academic Achievement; *Accountability; *Classification;
Decision Making; Disabilities; Educational Assessment; *Educational
Discrimination; Educational Practices; Grade Repetition; Low Achievement;
Primary Education; Special Education; *Student Placement; *Test
Use; Testing Problems; Testing Programs
Identifiers: *High Stakes Tests
