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epaa-580	Mehrens, William A.	Consequences of Assessment: What is the Evidence?	1998	30	.pdf	application/pdf	13220	734	58	General Overview 3 of 30 In this presentation I wish to spend a brief amount of time on the prevalence of large scale assessments (focusing primarily on state assessments); discuss the purported purposes of these assessment programs; enumerate some potential dangers and potential benefits of such assessments; investigate what the research evidence says (and does not say) about assessment consequences (including a discussion of the quality of the evidence); discuss how to evaluate whether the consequences are good or bad; present some ideas about what variables may influence the probabilities for good or bad consequences; and present some tentative conclusions about the whole issue of the consequences of assessment and the amount of evidence available and needed. Using student assessments for educational accountability.	cache/epaa-580.pdf	txt/epaa-580.txt