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A culture where high-stakes testing is deeply ingrained and test performance becomes a route to status and mobility.
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testing culture
A culture where high-stakes testing is deeply ingrained and test performance becomes a route to status and mobility.
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East Asian students do well on tests because high-stakes testing is culturally ingrained and has roots going back thousands of years.
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"...the fact of the matter is that East Asia is a testing culture. High -stakes testing is fundamental and ingrained in the culture. It..."
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"Chinese love taking tests, right? I mean, in America, you know, you say to a class, okay, we're doing a test today. All the..."
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