Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform by Walberg, Herbert J.

Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780817913540)

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Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform by Walberg, Herbert J.

Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform

$19.95
Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform by Walberg, Herbert J.

Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform

$19.95
Format: Hardcover
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The author draws on scientific studies of tests and their uses to show how standardized achievement tests must play a central role in improving achievement in K-12 schools. He explains the central considerations in developing and evaluating tests and tells how tests can best be best used, covering such topics as using tests for student incentives, paying teachers for performance, and using tests in efforts to attain new state and national standards.

Author: Herbert J. Walberg
ISBN-10: 0817913548
ISBN-13: 9780817913540
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Language: English
Published: 05/21/2011
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.31w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2013
Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg. 158
By Herbert J. Walberg
By Herbert J. Walberg
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Herbert J. Walberg is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a project investigator at the Vanderbilt University National Center on School Choice. Renowned throughout the world for his expertise on education policy and practice, he has written and edited more than sixty-five books and has written some 350 articles on education and exceptional human accomplishments.

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