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Policy Perspectives on Educational Testing (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Policy Perspectives on Educational Testing (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
Series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services, 32
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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. This book deals with a range of issues within the field of
educational assessment, with an emphasis on those issues that have
sparked the public policy debate in recent years. Much of this
volume concerns itself with the impact of testing on various
subgroups of the population - blacks, Hispanics, young children,
and children considered to be of below average' ability. Taken
together, the contributions to this volume represent a broad range
of views on differential test performance. (This book is part of
the subseries of books based on the Ford Foundation's National
Commission on Testing and Public Policy. Previous titles in this
program include Gifford & Wing/Test in Defense, Gifford &
O'Connor/Changing Assessments, Gifford/Test Policy and the Politics
of Opportunity Allocation, and Gifford/Test Policy and Test
Performance.)
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