Ken Goodman wrote:
>
> At various times the terms assessment, evaluation, measurement among
> others have been used, more or less interchangeably. My personal belief
> is that we burn terms out because they begin to take on negative
> connotations. The most recent such term ( a sign of the meanness of the
> times) is "high-stakes" testing. Stakeholders are all those with an
> interest in the system: students, teachers, tax-payers, parents
> administrators, voters etc.
> Ken Goodman
> --
> Kenneth S. Goodman, Professor, Language, Reading & Culture
> 504 College of Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
> fax 520 7456895 phone 520 6217868
>
> These are mean times- and in the mean time
> We need to Learn to Live Under Water