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Test Policy and the Politics of Opportunity Allocation: The Workplace and the Law (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)
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Test Policy and the Politics of Opportunity Allocation: The Workplace and the Law (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)
Series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services, 22
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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. Most major institutions of higher education require
applicants to supplement their records of academic achievements
with scores on standardized tests. Similarly, in the workplace, as
a condition of employment or assignment to training programs, more
and more employers are requiring prospective employees to sit for
standardized tests. In short, with increasing frequency and
intensity, individual members of the political economy are required
to transmit to the opportunity marketplace scores on standardized
examinations that purport to be objective measures of their and
potential. In many instances, these test scores are the abilities,
talents, only signals about their skills that job applicants are
permitted to send to prospective employers. THE NATIONAL COMMISSION
ON TESTING AND PUBLIC POLICY In view of the importance of these
issues to our current national agenda, it was proposed that the
Human Rights and Governance and the Education and Culture Programs
of the Ford Foundation support the establishment of a ''blue
ribbon" National Commission on Testing and Public Policy to
investigate some of the major problems as well as the untapped
opportunities created by recent trends in the use of standardized
tests, particularly in the workplace and in schools.
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