Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing - Hardcover

Phelps, Richard P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765801787 ISBN 13: 9780765801784

Verlag: Transaction Publishers, 2003

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Kill the Messenger is perhaps the most thorough and authoritative work in defense of educational testing ever written. Phelps points out that much research conducted by education insiders on the topic is based on ideological preference or profound self-interest. It is not surprising that they arrive at emphatically anti-testing conclusions. Much, if not most, of this hostile research is passed on to the public by journalists as if it were neutral, objective, and independent. This volume explains and refutes many of the common criticisms of testing; describes testing opponents strategies, through case studies of Texas and the SAT; illustrates the profound media bias against testing; acknowledges testings limitations, and suggests how it can be improved; and finally, outlines the consequences of losing the war on standardized testing.

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Richard P. Phelps has devoted most of his working life to the world of education. His research work on testing has been published in Evaluation Review, The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, Educational and Psychological Measurement, among others. Herbert J. Walberg, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, is a University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago and chairman of the board of directors of the Heartland Institute in Chicago. J. E. Stone is the founder and moderator of the Education Consumers ClearingHouse, and a professor of education at East Tennessee State University.

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• Verlag: Transaction Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0765801787
• ISBN 13: 9780765801784
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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