The Role and Importance of Standardized Testing in the World of Teaching and Training

Abstract

Paper presented at the 15th Congress of the World Association for Educational Research, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco, June 3, 2008

Keywords

• education
• policy
• psychology
• scientific test
• educational achievement
• educational improvement
• effect of tests
• consequences of tests
• testing
• high-stakes
• education accountability
• test-based accountability
• teachers
• open-source platform
• NCLB
• No Child Left Behind
• teacher grades
• classroom grading
• Bayes
• objective tests