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The Myth of measurability
- Title
- The Myth of measurability / edited by Paul L. Houts.
- Publication
- New York : Hart Pub. Co., ©1977.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BF431.M87 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Houts, Paul L.
- Description
- 398 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Uniform Title
- National elementary principal.
- Subject
- Intelligence tests
- Educational tests and measurements > United States
- Minorities > Psychological testing
- Intelligence Tests
- Educational tests and measurements
- Intelligence tests
- Minorities > Psychological testing
- Intelligenz
- Intelligenztest
- Kritik
- Messung
- Soziale Gerechtigkeit
- Educational tests and measurements > United States
- Tests d'intelligence
- Tests et mesures en éducation
- Enfants > Tests d'intelligence
- United States
- Note
- Consists chiefly of articles reprinted from 1975 issues of Principal.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 379-383.
- Contents
- Introduction: standardized testing in America / Paul L. Houts -- Social implications of IQ / Sheldon H. White -- The politics of IQ / Leon J. Kamin -- The trouble with IQ tests / Jerrold R. Zacharias -- The bell shaped pitfall / Philip Morrison -- A is to B as C is to anything at all: the illogic of IQ tests / Judah L. Schwartz -- The score against IQ: a look at some test items / The editors of Principal -- The hidden agendas of IQ / George Purvin -- Culture, cognition, and IQ testing / Michael Cole -- IQ tests: a case of cultural myopia / Amado M. Padilla and Blas M. Garza -- Going up, going down / Thomas J. Cottle -- Evolution and learning: a context for avaluation / S.L. Washburn -- The numbers game: how the testing industry operates / Sherwood Davidson Kohn -- Coming to terms with testing / Mitchell Lazarus -- A conversation with Banesh Hoffmann / Paul L. Houts -- A tale of testing in two cities / Bernard M. McKenna -- Evaluation, the English experience / Philip Sherwood -- Power and the national assessment of educational progress / Paul A. Olson -- Some comments on power and the NAEP / Ralph W. Tyler -- The current tests -- On the misuse of test data: a second look at Jenck's Inequality / Mitchell Lazarus -- Two principals look at standardized tests / Arthur S. Laughland and William Corbett -- Reporting reading test results in New York City / Jerome Green -- How to avoid the dangers of testing / Jerry L. Patterson, Theodore J. Czaijowski, Elaine Hubbard, Glenn Johnson, Charlie Slater, and Darwin Kaufman -- A due process procedure for testing / Edwin F. Taylor and Judah L. Schwartz -- Questions you should ask about your testing program / J. Parker Damon -- On standardized testing and evaluation / Vito Perrone.
- ISBN
- 0805512187
- 9780805512182
- 0805503129
- 9780805503128
- LCCN
- 76054045
- OCLC
- ocm03205313
- 3205313
- SCSB-9608434
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library