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Testing in Literacy: The Hidden Agenda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Max Kemp
Max Kemp*
Affiliation:
Schools & Community Centre, Canberra College of Advanced Education
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There has been unrest in our newspapers recently about standards of literacy in schools. To those of us who daily are in touch with children who have difficulties in learning to read and write, periodic public forays into the standards issues are usually unhelpful, unwarranted and uninformed. Comparisons between the standards of literacy achieved by different generations of school children are difficult to make, on the one hand because our functional literacy requirements differ from yesterday’s and on the other because the conditions of learning and performance in schools have undergone immense change during the last couple of generations.

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Research Article
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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , November 1987 , pp. 3 - 12
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1987

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