Harvard Graduate School of Education

Table of Contents for Collateral Damage

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Nel Noddings

Preface

Chapter 1 A Short History of High-Stakes Testing Arguments For and Against Its Use, Its Place in Contemporary Society, and a Brief Introduction to Campbell's Law

Chapter 2 The Prevalence and Many Forms of Cheating and the Problem of Absolute and Relativistic Standards for Judging Such Occurrences

Chapter 3 Excluding Students from Education by Design and by Neglect, the Crisis of Caring in Our Schools, and the Special Case of the “Bubble Kids”

Chapter 4 States Cheat Too! How Statistical Trickery and Misrepresentation of Data Mislead the Public

Chapter 5 What Happens to Validity When Indicators Are Distorted and Corrupted, the Many Ways That High-Stakes Testing Promotes Such Distortion and Corruption, and How Those Practices Lead to Confusion About What Test Scores Mean

Chapter 6 How High-Stakes Testing Undermines Public Education and the Teaching Profession While Also Destroying Both Teacher and Student Morale

Chapter 7 We Conclude That High-Stakes Testing Provides Perfect Conditions for Campbell's Law to Operate, Ignores Standards for Professional Conduct and Appropriate Test Use, and Is Unnecessary Because Alternative Systems of Accountability Exist

Notes
About the Authors
Index

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