ted the utilization of high stakes testing, including politicians, felt that high stakes testing would raise the nationÆs standards of achievement.
As noted in Quality Count Report (Education Week, 1999) federal and state agencies began to mandate the implementation of state and national educational standards and recommended that instructional strategies be modified to focus on these standards. Proponents of high stakes testing advocated the utilization of these tests to measure student achievement and assign a grade to the school based on student results. Many politicians felt that the implementation of standards- based curriculum, modification of instructional strategies, and high stakes testing would increase the academic performance of all students. Furthermore, these agencies maintained that the implementation of standards would provide a
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