Test Policy and Test Performance: Education, Language, and Culture

Bernard R. Gifford

ISBN 10: 0792390148 / ISBN 13: 9780792390145

Verlag: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Mai 1989, 1989

Beschreibung

Neuware -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 abilities, talents, and potential. In many instances, these test scores are the 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 322 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780792390145

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Test Policy and Test Performance: Education, Language, and Culture
• Verlag: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Mai 1989
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0792390148
• ISBN-13: 9780792390145
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 241B x 160 H x 22 T Millimeter Breite: 241 mm, Höhe: 160 mm, Tiefe: 22 mm
• Gewicht: 650 Gramm

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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 abilities, talents, and potential. In many instances, these test scores are the 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.