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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