This book is about how our addiction to testing influences both
society and ourselves as socially defined persons. The analysis
focuses on tests of people, particularly tests in schools,
intelligence tests, vocational interest tests, lie detection,
integrity tests, and drug tests. Diagnostic psychiatric tests and
medical tests are included only tangentially. A good deal of the
descriptive material will be familiar to readers from their
personal experience as takers and/or givers of tests. But testing,
as with much of ordinary life, has implications that we seldom
pause to ponder and often do not even notice. My aim is to uncover
in the everyday operation of testing a series of well-concealed and
mostly unintended consequences that exercise far deeper and more
pervasive influence in social life than is commonly
recognized. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1993.
General
Imprint: |
University of California Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2021 |
First published: |
1993 |
Authors: |
F Allan Hanson
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
392 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-35749-5 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-520-35749-3 |
Barcode: |
9780520357495 |
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