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Standardized testing in the United States has been increasing at a
rapid pace in the last twenty-five years. The market for tests has
not only been expanding rapidly, but has also been changing sharply
in structure into a fractured marketplace. Indeed, one of the main
features of this book is that the market for standardized testing
is highly fractured - with segments of the market facing monopoly
conditions, others facing oligopoly conditions and still others
where near free-market conditions exist. One of the main premises
of the book is that the structures of markets have strong
implications for how those markets perform. While this notion is
widely accepted among economists, it is not widely appreciated in
educational research. A second motivation for the book is that very
little scholarly attention has been focused on the standardized
testing industry. This topic - the structure of the testing
industry and implications for the quality of tests and test use -
affects how we evaluate the learning of students, the effectiveness
of teaching, the quality of schools and the educational health of
the nation. Of particular concern to the authors is one vital
aspect of test quality: test validity. This book is the most
current and authoritative review and analysis of the market for
standardized testing.
Standardized testing in the United States has been increasing at a
rapid pace in the last twenty-five years. The market for tests has
not only been expanding rapidly, but has also been changing sharply
in structure into a fractured marketplace. Indeed, one of the main
features of this book is that the market for standardized testing
is highly fractured - with segments of the market facing monopoly
conditions, others facing oligopoly conditions and still others
where near free-market conditions exist. One of the main premises
of the book is that the structures of markets have strong
implications for how those markets perform. While this notion is
widely accepted among economists, it is not widely appreciated in
educational research. A second motivation for the book is that very
little scholarly attention has been focused on the standardized
testing industry. This topic - the structure of the testing
industry and implications for the quality of tests and test use -
affects how we evaluate the learning of students, the effectiveness
of teaching, the quality of schools and the educational health of
the nation. Of particular concern to the authors is one vital
aspect of test quality: test validity. This book is the most
current and authoritative review and analysis of the market for
standardized testing.
In this volume, Stephen Prince has collected essays reviewing the
history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its
persistent appeal, as well as discussions of the developmental
responses of young adult viewers and children to the genre. The
book focuses on recent postmodern examples such as The Blair Witch
Project. In a daring move, the volume also examines Holocaust films
in relation to horror. Part One features essays on the silent and
classical Hollywood eras. Part Two covers the postWorld War II era
and discusses the historical, aesthetic, and psychological
characteristics of contemporary horror films. In contrast to horror
during the classical Hollywood period, contemporary horror features
more graphic and prolonged visualizations of disturbing and
horrific imagery, as well as other distinguishing characteristics.
Princes introduction provides an overview of the genre,
contextualizing the readings that follow. Stephen Prince is
professor of communications at Virginia Tech. He has written many
film books, including Classical Film Violence: Designing and
Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 19301968, and has edited
Screening Violence, also in the Depth of Field Series.
The most famous basketball tournament in the history of college
basketball is the Big Five. And the Big Five was played in the most
hallowed halls of college play: the Palestra. Now, for the first
time, a complete story of this Philadelphia rivalry is revealed.
Robert Lyons offers the story of the Big Five from its very
beginnings in 1955. At that time, many of the Big Five schools --
La Salle University, University of Pennsylvania, St. Joseph's
University, Temple University, and Villanova University -- weren't
even talking to each other, and everyone predicted the tournament
would end before it began. Conducting interviews with coaches and
players -- including famed Temple coach Harry Litwack's last
interview before his death -- Lyons offers the play-by-play on how
the Big Five became an institution, and how it was ultimately
undone by college basketball's own success. Lavishly illustrated
with photographs of players, teams, coaches, and the Palestra
itself, Palestra Pandemonium is an immediate classic, offering a
chronicle of the most monumental college basketball tournament.
Anywhere.
The Danly-Ichiyo book is one of those works where the author and
subject seem so perfectly matched that the style of each suffuses
and inspires the other: Danly as translator and commentator picks
up and transforms Ichiyo s blend of formal and colloquial language
into flowing, strong, modern terms; she, in turn, spreads her wit,
her melancholy, her sudden piercing insights to Danly. Jonathan
Spence, New Society"
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