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Standardized Testing

• High Stakes Testing Position Statement
  The Alliance for Childhood presents a position statement on high-stakes testing. This position maintains that such testing is harmful to children, that the technology of testing is flawed, and that high-stakes testing is damaging to public education itself.
• Overboard on Testing
  This article presents the argument that test results have come to dominate the standards system, rather than being a part of it.
• The Use of Tests as Part of High-Stakes Decision-Making for Students
  This resoure guide was created by Office of Civil Rights of the US Department of Education in order to assemble information regarding test measurement standards, legal principles, and other resources to help educators and policy-makers ensure that tests with high-stakes consequences for students are educationally sound and legally appropriate.