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Policy Perspectives on Educational Testing

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Bernard R. Gifford

    1. University of California at Berkeley, USA

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Part of the book series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services (EEHS, volume 32)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-1
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  2. Introduction

    • Bernard R. Gifford
    Pages 3-17

  3. School Achievement Trends for Black Students

    • Lyle V. Jones
    Pages 19-73

  4. The Status of Research on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and Hispanic Students in Postsecondary Education

    • Maria Pennock-Román
    Pages 75-115

  5. Psychometric G and Achievement

    • Arthur R. Jensen
    Pages 117-227

  6. EENY, MEENY, MINY, MOE: Testing Policy and Practice in Early Childhood

    • Anne E. Cunningham
    Pages 229-294

  7. Changing Statewide Reading Assessment: A Case Study of Michigan and Illinois

    • Charles W. Peters, Karen K. Wixson, Sheila W. Valencia, P. David Pearson
    Pages 295-391

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 393-406
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About this book

America faces a crisis in education and its accompanying effects on the nation's economic and social life. Educators and policy makers need to document the extent of this crisis, to gauge its potential impact, and to develop educational strategies that would boost achievement; this has turned the spotlight on educational assessment - the procedures, practices, and tools that educators use to measure the progress of students, both as individuals and groups.
This book deals with a range of issues within the field of educational assessment, with an emphasis on those issues that have sparked the public policy debate in recent years. Much of this volume concerns itself with the impact of testing on various subgroups of the population - blacks, Hispanics, young children, and children considered to be of `below average' ability. Taken together, the contributions to this volume represent a broad range of views on differential test performance.
(This book is part of the subseries of books based on the Ford Foundation's National Commission on Testing and Public Policy. Previous titles in this program include Gifford & Wing/Test in Defense, Gifford & O'Connor/Changing Assessments, Gifford/Test Policy and the Politics of Opportunity Allocation, and Gifford/Test Policy and Test Performance.)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California at Berkeley, USA

    Bernard R. Gifford

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Policy Perspectives on Educational Testing

  • Editors: Bernard R. Gifford

  • Series Title: Evaluation in Education and Human Services

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2226-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9238-5Published: 31 December 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4987-0Published: 29 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2226-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 406

  • Topics: Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Economic Policy

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