@article{Mehrens_1998, title={Consequences of Assessment: What is the Evidence?}, volume={6}, url={https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/580}, DOI={10.14507/epaa.v6n13.1998}, abstractNote={Attention is here directed toward the prevalence of large scale assessments (focusing primarily on state assessments). I examine the purposes of these assessment programs; enumerate both potential dangers and benefits of such assessments; investigate what the research evidence says 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.}, journal={Education Policy Analysis Archives}, author={Mehrens, William A.}, year={1998}, month={Jul.}, pages={13} }