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Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools
Collateral Damage How HighStakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools Author:Sharon L. Nichols, David C. Berliner Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system. Their analysis is grounded in the application of Campbell s Law, which posits that the greater the social consequences associated with a quantitative indicator (su... more »ch as test scores), the more likely it is that the indicator itself will become corrupted and the more likely it is that the use of the indicator will corrupt the social processes it was intended to monitor.« less