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Test policy and test performance : education, language, and culture / edited by Bernard R. Gifford.

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Test policy and test performance : education, language, and culture / edited by Bernard R. Gifford.
Publication
Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1989.

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  • Gifford, Bernard R.
  • National Commission on Testing and Public Policy (U.S.)
  • National Commission on Testing and Public Policy.
Description
xii, 306 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Evaluation in education and human services
Uniform Title
Evaluation in education and human services.
Subject
  • Education and state > United States > Congresses
  • Educational evaluation > United States > Congresses
  • Educational tests and measurements > United States > Congresses
  • Test bias > United States > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • "This is the second volume in a two-volume set that is the first in a series of works to appear under the aegis of the National Commission on Testing and Public Policy"--Introd.
  • Companion volume to: Test policy and the politics of opportunity allocation.
  • Papers prepared for presentation at a conference which was held at the University of California at Berkeley, Dec. 11-13, 1986.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Mandated tests: educational reform or quality indicator? / Eva L. Baker -- Student achievement tests as tools of educational policy: practices and consequences / Edward Haertel -- Making sense of school testing / Walter M. Haney -- The Irish study revisited / George F. Madaus -- Using test scores for decision making / William A. Mehrens -- If not tests, then what? conference remarks / Christopher Jencks -- Advice to the commission conference remarks / George Hanford -- Aspects of differential performance by minorities on standardized tests: linguistic and sociocultural factors / Mary Catherine O'Connor -- Ethnic group differences in the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) performance of American youth: implications for career prospects / Elsie G.J. Moore -- Testing bilingual proficiency for specialized occupations: issues and implications / Guadalupe Valdés -- Informal assessment of Asian Americans: a cultural and linguistic mismatch? / Chui Lim Tsang -- Black and white cultural styles in pluralistic perspective / Thomas Kochman.
ISBN
0792390148
LCCN
^^^89002382^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library