The Effect of national Standards and Curriculum-Based Exams on Achievement

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The Effect of national Standards and Curriculum-Based Exams on Achievement

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Bishop, J.

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Our review of the evidence suggests that the claims of the advocates of standards and examination based reform of American secondary education may be right. The countries and Canadian provinces with such systems outperform other countries at comparable levels of development. In addition, New York State, the only state with a CBEEE, does remarkably well on the SAT test when student demography is held constant (Bishop 1996). CBEEEs are not, however, the most important determinant of achievement levels. CBEEEs are common in developing nations where achievement levels are often quite low [eg. Columbia and Iran]. Belgium, by contrast, has a top quality education system without having a CBEEE. More research on the effects of CBEEEs is clearly in order.

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Paper provided by Cornell - Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies in its series Papers with number 97-01.

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