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Testing for Learning: How New Approaches to Evaluation Can Improve American Schools

Kathleen M. Riordan, Ruth Mitchell

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Arguing that traditional, test-based evaluation has a negative effect on many students, this book describes new methods of assessing student performance.

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Arguing that traditional, test-based evaluation has a negative effect on many students, this book describes new methods of assessing student performance.

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Arguing that traditional, test-based evaluation has a negative effect on many students, this book describes new methods of assessing student performance.

Key concepts: Test (biology), Mathematics education, Computer science, Psychology, Biology, Paleontology

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