Black Issues Forum 2001
Making the Grade, But Failing the Test.
How Can I Go To College If I Can't Test Out Of High School
Selected Resources - A Place To Begin Your Research
Faculty/Staff Advisors - Blanche Hughes
Peer Mentors - Brandon Eubanks, Shahada Abdal-Rahman, Tiffany Cohen
Faculty/Staff Advisors -Michael Corke and Crystal Vann
Peer Mentors -Thal Woods, Marsha Tate, Krista Roper
Library Staff - Sari Keilman, Michelle Mach, Lou Anderson
- Testing Scenario
- CSU Libraries Virtual Tour
- APA Style Guide via The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries
- How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography via Cornell University's Reference Services Division
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center - Annotated Bibliography
SAGE (online catalog) -- Keywords/Subject Headings:
- Subject: test bias
- Subject: African Americans education (higher)
- Subject: African Americans education
- Subject: discrimination in education
- Keyword: minorities and tests
- Keyword: African Americans and (tests or testing)
- Keyword: (educational tests and measurements) and (minorities)
Books and Reviews
- Sacks, P. (1999). Standardized minds: the high price of America's testing culture and what we can do to change it. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Books. LB3051 .S22 1999
- Book Review from The Progressive.
- Koretz, D., and U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center. (1991). The Effect of high-stakes testing on achievement [microform] : preliminary findings about generalization across tests. (Washington, DC: GPO). MICROTEXT FICHE ED 1.310/2:340730
- Kohn, A. (2000). The case against standardized testing: raising the scores, ruining the schools. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann. LB3060.3 .K64 2000
Databases
Use Keyword searches with the following terms:
- high school graduation tests
- high school exit exams
- (blacks OR African Americans) AND (standardized tests)
- (blacks OR African Americans) AND (achievement tests)
- racial bias AND standardized tests
- Electric Library - All fulltext - includes transcripts, images, magazine, and newspaper articles.
- Periodical Abstracts - Partial fulltext - includes popular magazines and scholarly articles.
- Education Abstracts - leading publications in the education field.
- ERIC - contains journal articles and reports on education topics.
- Academic Universe - All fulltext newspapers, transcipts, and magazine articles.
Internet Search Engines
- Google search: Use keywords: "high school graduation tests" OR "high school exit exams"
Internet sites (selected)
- FairTest: The National Center for Fair & Open Testing - "An advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally sound. We place special emphasis on eliminating the racial, class, gender, andcultural barriers to equal opportunity posed by standardized tests, and preventing their damage to the quality of education.
- The Educational Testing Service - "The world's largest private educational testing and measurement organization and a leader in educational research."
- Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP)
- Education Commission of the States - Click on "Education Issues"
- U.S. Department of Education - Source for information and statistics.
- Education Week On the Web - Click on "Assessment"- online version of the journal Education Week.
- Thomas B. Fordham Foundation: "Standards, Testing & Accountability"- "supports research, publications, and action projects of national significance in elementary/secondary education reform, as well as significant education reform projects in Dayton, Ohio and vicinity."
Internet articles
- "Critique of Standardized Testing" - via the Educational Testing Service- a monthly summary of research.
- "Falling Behind in Texas: Other States Watch Challenge on Bias in School Exit Test"
- Via The Boston Globe
- "Future of Affirmative Action: Promoting Diversity in Education and Employment Requires Us to Rethink Testing and "Meritocracy" - via The Boston Review.
- Articles from the National Educational Association
- NEA 2000-2001 Resolution B-56. Standardized Testing of Students
- "Should Higher Education Institutions Continue to Use Standardized Tests as a Criterion for Admission?"
- "Standardized Tests: The Interpretation of Racial and Ethnic Gaps" - via La Griffe Du Lion
- States pay $400M for tests in 2001 - via Stateline.org - "founded in order to help journalists, policy makers and engaged citizens become better informed about innovative public policies." Operated by Pew Center on the States.
- "Testing: The Need and the Danger" - via The Civil Rights Project--Harvard University.
- "Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools" (issue theme) -- Rethinking Schools Online: An Urban Educational Journal
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