High-Stakes Testing in Education : Value, Fairness and Consequences (Hardcover)

1. High-stakes testing ? value, fairness and consequences Gordon Stobart and Theo Eggen  2. The evolution of high-stakes testing at the school?university interface in the former republics of the USSR George Bethell and Algirdas Zabulionis  3. Unintended consequences of forced policy-making in high stakes examinations: the case of the Republic of Cyprus Iasonas Lamprianou  4. Differential outcomes in high-stakes eleven plus testing: the role of gender, geography, and assessment design in Trinidad and Tobago Jerome De Lisle, Peter Smith, Carol Keller and Vena Jules  5. The impact of high stakes testing: the Australian story Val Klenowski and Claire Wyatt-Smith  6. High-stakes testing in South Africa: friend or foe? Sarah Howie  7. Rethinking validation in complex high-stakes assessment contexts Martha J. Koch and Christopher DeLuca  8. Educational measurement issues and implications of high stakes decision making in final examinations in secondary education in the Netherlands P.W. van Rijn, A.A. Beguin and H.H.F.M. Verstralen