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This 2.5-page paper examines high-stakes testing that is administered in Virginia and the related issues surrounding the testing, including ethical issues. There are 4 sources cited.
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File: PG56_GPAvirginia.rtf
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. High-Stakes Testing Research Compiled for The
Paper Store, Inc. by P. Giltman 7/2010 Please For over a decade, Virginia educators have had to contend with
the increasing role that high-stakes testing plays in the decisions they make about what to teach and how to teach it. The effects of these policies are hard to determine
because, as researchers have observed, they vary greatly depending on local context. Although it is difficult to say with precision what the effect of testing has had on American education,
much of the research into the phenomenon points to the erosion of the moral authority of schools as administrators and to the fact that teachers are pressured to do what
it takes to raise test scores. The top three issues in high-stakes testing that are seen today are teachers being pressured to "teach the test", the long curriculums that teachers
have to cover over the course of a semester and the inability of all students to progress at the same level as their peers. Often, the pressures of high-stakes
testing push schools to distort aspects of the curriculum or, worse, to focus solely on test-taking skills. For teachers working with marginalized students who are much less likely to pass
the exams, and hence graduate high school, what scholars recommend is an opportunity for teachers to reclaim their own agency as professional educators (Reich & Bally, 2010). Creating such a
document requires a leap of faith on the part of teachers and administrators. Faith, in this case, must be placed in the teachers themselves and on the discursive process of
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