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Product Description: Linda C. Wing and Bernard R. Gifford How should a society committed to the ideas of individual merit, equal opportunity, and the free marketplace allocate scarce educational and employment opportunities? How can that society draw distinctions fairly and justifiably-among people competing against each other for the same opportunity? These are among the central questions of a democracy...read more
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9780792393634 | Kluwer Academic Pub, January 1, 1994, cover price $199.00
Paperback:
9789401049764 | Springer Verlag, December 16, 2012, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Linda C.
Product Description: Bernard R. Gifford In the United States, the standardized test has become one of the major sources of information for reducing uncertainty in the determination of individual merit and in the allocation of merit-based educational, training, and employment opportunities...read more
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9780792390145 | Kluwer Academic Pub, April 1, 1989, cover price $289.00 | About this edition: Bernard R.
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9789401076289, titled "Test Policy and Test Performance: Education, Language, and Culture" | Springer Verlag, December 14, 2011, cover price $289.00 | About this edition: Bernard R.
Product Description: Bernard R. Gifford In the United States, the standardized test has become one of the major sources of information for reducing uncertainty in the determination of individual merit and in the allocation of merit-based educational, training, and employment opportunities...read more
Hardcover:
9780792390152 | Kluwer Academic Pub, April 1, 1989, cover price $259.00 | About this edition: Bernard R.
Paperback:
9789401076296 | Springer Verlag, October 5, 2011, cover price $169.00 | About this edition: Bernard R.
Hardcover:
9780792391777 | Kluwer Academic Pub, January 1, 1992, cover price $329.00
Paperback:
9789401053181 | Springer Verlag, September 28, 2012, cover price $329.00
Bernard R. Gifford and Linda C. Wing Standardized testing has become a ubiquitous feature of American life. As a major source of information for reducing uncertainty in the alJocation of merit based educational, training, and employment opportunities, testing affects the life chances of individuals. Moreover, testing inOuences the way in which our societyjudgesitselfandprovides for ourcollective future. Test scores may determine a child's admission to lcindergarten and promotion to the fIrst grade. Most states award the high school diploma only ifa student has passed a minimum competency test. Major institutions of higher education typically require applicants to supplement their records of academic achievement with scores on college admissions tests. In the labor market, as a condition of employment or assignment to training programs, more and more employers are requiring workers to sit for personnel selection tests. Additionally, it has become commonplace to use test scores to calibrate our national sociopolitical condition and our capacity to compete with other countries in the global economy. In short, with increasing frequency and intensity, scores on examinations that purport to be objective and precise measures of individual knowledge, abilities, and potential are playing a critical role in the opportunity marketplace. Similarly, test scores are exercising growing influence in assessments of our social and economic institutions and in policy decisions about the relative invesunents that should be made in each. In all these instantiations, test scores are at the center of high-stakes decision making about the future of individuals and of the nation itself.
Hardcover:
9780792391760 | Kluwer Academic Pub, February 1, 1992, cover price $209.00 | About this edition: Bernard R.
Paperback:
9789401053198 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, October 10, 2012), cover price $199.00
Product Description: America faces a crisis in education and its accompanying effects on the nation's economic and social life. Educators and policy makers need to document the extent of this crisis, to gauge its potential impact, and to develop educational strategies that would boost achievement; this has turned the spotlight on educational assessment - the procedures, practices, and tools that educators use to measure the progress of students, both as individuals and groups...read more
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9780792392385 | Kluwer Academic Pub, November 1, 1992, cover price $220.00 | About this edition: America faces a crisis in education and its accompanying effects on the nation's economic and social life.
Paperback:
9789401049870 | Springer Verlag, October 29, 2012, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: America faces a crisis in education and its accompanying effects on the nation's economic and social life.
Hardcover:
9780029117019 | Macmillan Pub Co, August 1, 1988, cover price $34.95 | also contains May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955, May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955
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