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"As we demonstrate throughout this book, the logic undergirding high stakes testing policy is unsound. We will show by example after example why strict adherence to this policy does more harm than good. Guided by a little-known but well-documented principle of social science, Campbell's law, we will argue that high-stakes testing, the cornerstone of NCLB, is paving the way for an educational crisis that threatens to leave our nation behind."
Nichols, L. and Berliner, David C. (2007)Collateral Damage:
How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools, Cambridge,
MA: Harvard Education Press.
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" Already, the national results are being scrutinised, with various states and organisations using them to justify certain narratives about their school systems. But according to Minister for Education Peter Garrett, Australia's overall school performance in NAPLAN has remained steady since 2008. But why is it, given one of the aims of NAPLAN was to improve literacy and numeracy and with copious amounts of time and money spent on testing, we have not seen results improve overall since 2008?"
Thompson, Greg (2012) "Anxious kids not learning: the real effect of NAPLAN",
The Conversation,
http://theconversation.edu.au/anxious-kids-not-learning-the-real-effects-of-naplan-9526
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