Which of the following is not a reason that should dissuade policymakers from evaluating educational quality on the basis of students' scores on certain educational achievement tests?
A. There are often substantial mismatches between the content covered on some of these tests and local curricular emphases.
B. Substantial gaps between minority and majority students' performance on most accountability tests will rarely be found.
C. There is a technical tendency to remove from such tests items covering important, teacher-stressed knowledge and skills.
D. It is difficult to tell from such tests how much of a student's test performance is due to what was taught in school rather than to students' socioeconomic status or inherited academic aptitudes.
B
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