Does high-stakes testing increase cultural capital among low-income and racial minority students?

dc.creator	Won-Pyo Hong
dc.creator	Peter Youngs
dc.date	2008-03-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:28:26Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:28:26Z
dc.identifier	1068-2341
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/aff78af6399e4a0981da2a4d9d2a2a87
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/21962
dc.description	This article draws on research from Texas and Chicago to examine whether high-stakes testing enables low-income and racial minority students to acquire cultural capital. While students' performance on state or district tests rose after the implementation of high-stakes testing and accountability policies in Texas and Chicago in the 1990s, several studies indicate that these policies seemed to have had deleterious effects on curriculum, instruction, the percentage of students excluded from the tests, and student dropout rates. As a result, the policies seemed to have had mixed effects on students' opportunities to acquire embodied and institutionalized cultural capital. These findings are consistent with the work of Shepard (2000), Darling-Hammond (2004a), and others who have written of the likely negative repercussions of high-stakes testing and accountability policies.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Spanish
dc.language	Portuguese
dc.publisher	Arizona State University
dc.relation	http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/31
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1068-2341
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Education Policy Analysis Archives, Vol 16, p 6 (2008)
dc.subject	cultural capital, high-stakes testing, accountability, K-12 schooling in the U.S.
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Does high-stakes testing increase cultural capital among low-income and racial minority students?
dc.type	article