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Test Policy in Defense - Lessons from the Military for Education, Training, and Employment (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
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Test Policy in Defense - Lessons from the Military for Education, Training, and Employment (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
Series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services, 31
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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."
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