Bernard R. Gifford and Linda C. Wing Standardized testing has become a ubiquitous feature of American life. As a major source of information for reducing uncertainty in the alJocation of merit based educational, training, and employment opportunities, testing affects the life chances of individuals. Moreover, testing inOuences the way in which our societyjudgesitselfandprovides for ourcollective future. Test scores may determine a child's admission to lcindergarten and promotion to the fIrst grade. Most states award the high school diploma only ifa student has passed a minimum competency test. Major institutions of higher education typically require applicants to supplement their records of academic achievement with scores on college admissions tests. In the labor market, as a condition of employment or assignment to training programs, more and more employers are requiring workers to sit for personnel selection tests. Additionally, it has become commonplace to use test scores to calibrate our national sociopolitical condition and our capacity to compete with other countries in the global economy. In short, with increasing frequency and intensity, scores on examinations that purport to be objective and precise measures of individual knowledge, abilities, and potential are playing a critical role in the opportunity marketplace. Similarly, test scores are exercising growing influence in assessments of our social and economic institutions and in policy decisions about the relative invesunents that should be made in each. In all these instantiations, test scores are at the center of high-stakes decision making about the future of individuals and of the nation itself.
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2012

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Bernard R Gifford; Linda C Wing; National Commission on Testing and Public Policy (U.S.)

George F Madaus

Springer Science + Business Media BV

Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Evaluation in education and human services, 31, Dordrecht, 1992

Evaluation in education and human services, Boston, ©1992

Springer Nature, Dordrecht, 2012

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Dordrecht, 1991

Oct 10, 2012

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Source title: Test Policy in Defense: Lessons from the Military for Education, Training, and Employment (Evaluation in Education and Human Services)

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Military Testing and Public Policy: Selected Studies of Lower Aptitude Personnel....Pages 1-77
Becoming Brass: Issues in the Testing, Recruiting, and Selection of American Military Officers....Pages 79-219
The Validity of Test Scores for Selecting and Classifying Enlisted Recruits....Pages 221-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-270

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