Document Type
Report
Publication Date
4-17-2009
Series Number
Volume 6 Issue 1
Keywords
Testing skills, teaching to the test skills, rote memorization
Abstract
Arkansas’s state standardized tests have changed over the past few years. Since the ACTAAP legislation of 1999, Arkansas students have taken criterion-referenced Benchmark Tests based on the state’s curricular standards along with national norm-referenced exams each year. Prior to 2004, students in grades 4, 6, and 8 were administered the Benchmark tests in Mathematics and in English Language Arts. Starting in 2005, the odd-numbered grades were added so that students in grades 3-8 took the week-long Benchmark tests, in accordance with the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind act.
Citation
Buck, S., & Ritter, G. W. (2009). Putting "Teaching to the Test" to the Test: Is This Really a Problem in Arkansas?. Arkansas Education Reports. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/oepreport/44