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state versus national testing  

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  • The quest for increased student achievement and teacher accountability has drawn intensified attention to how educators develop and, more importantly, use tests in summative, formative, and consequential ways. This movement was initially spurred in 1983 by the publication of A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; Testing, State Versus National]

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