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" Approximately one third [of those students facing high stakes testing], however, showed little work effort despite a desire not to be retained. These students faced significantly larger skill gaps and barriers to learning both within and outside school than did their peers with high work effort."
"Roderick, Melissa & Engle, Mimi (2001) "The grasshopper and the ant:
motivational responses of low-achieving students to high stakes testing", Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, (23:3), 197-227.
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Summary: This book criticizes neo-liberal directions in education in the USA and the UK. It promotes examples of alternative to recent trends in high stakes education.
Hursch, David (2008) High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching
and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education. Critical Education Policy
and Politics #1,
Blue Ridge Summit-USA, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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