Negative impacts of high-stakes testing

Michaela Minarechová

doi:10.2478/v10159-012-0004-x

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Negative impacts of high-stakes testing

Journal of Pedagogy

Volume 3 (2012): Issue 1 (June 2012)

By: Michaela Minarechová

Open Access

|Aug 2012

Abstract

High-stakes testing is not a new phenomenon in education. It has become part of the education system in many countries. These tests affect the school systems, teachers, students, politicians and parents, whether that is in a positive or negative sense. High-stakes testing is associated with concepts such as a school's accountability, funding and parental choice of school. The study aims to explain high-stakes testing, how it is created and developed in selected countries and look at the negative impacts of tests on various actors within this relationship.

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