The high-stakes testing mania
Why has testing become so important?
What is a test?
What human and cultural factors affect test performance?
What technical issues affect test validity?
Why is it important to regard testing as a technology?
Why is the history of testing important?
What are the paradoxical consequences of high-stakes testing?
What is the future of testing?
Why and how should high-stakes testing be monitored?.
The paradoxes of high stakes testing : how they affect students, their parents, teachers, principals, schools, and society by George F. Madaus. ISBN 9781607520276. Published by Information Age in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.