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Study: High-stakes testing might lower achievement - eSchool News staff and wire service reports

As school districts from coast to coast deploy ever more technology to help prepare students for high-stakes exams, a new study by researchers at Arizona State University (ASU)—reportedly the largest such research project ever conducted—has concluded that standardized testing can be counterproductive and might actually lower academic achievement.... To help students pass the exams, school districts nationwide are turning to a variety of technology-based solutions—from software that aligns the district’s curriculum with state and national educational standards, to supplemental instructional programs that drill students on the skills they need to improve.

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