Reports on a study of nine teachers who used various strategies to prepare high school students to pass the Virginia Standards of Learning tests. Researchers found positive aspects of “teaching to the test,” an instructional practice that critics of standards oppose. Suggests four methods teachers may use to minimize the negative effects of externally imposed tests.
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