... While Boese agrees that the empirical data shows an increase in test scores, he disagrees later in several aspects. The first point he notes is that "improvements on the TAAS are not correlated to improvements on other standardized tests", moreover, "teachers were teaching them how to take ... even better tests cannot outweigh the most important negative impact of standardized tests. A Toch and Wagner survey says "1 in 11 teachers reported pressure from administrators to cheat on standardized tests." While I'm sure that no teacher at a university such as Baylor would cheat because tests ...

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