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The fractured marketplace for standardized testing
- Title
- The fractured marketplace for standardized testing / Walter M. Haney, George F. Madaus, Robert Lyons.
- Author
- Haney, Walt.
- Publication
- Boston : Kluwer-Academic Publishers, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HF5549.5.E5 H36 1993 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiv, 347 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Evaluation in education and human services
- Uniform Title
- Evaluation in education and human services.
- Subject
- Employment tests > Standards > United States
- Employment tests > Economic aspects > United States
- Educational tests and measurements > Standards > United States
- Educational tests and measurements > Economic aspects > United States
- Ability > Testing > Government policy
- Ability > Testing > Economic aspects
- Ability > Testing > Economic aspects
- Ability > Testing > Government policy
- Educational tests and measurements > Economic aspects
- Educational tests and measurements > Standards
- Employment tests > Economic aspects
- Employment tests > Standards
- Marktforschungsinstitut
- Untersuchungsmethode
- United States
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-317) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Testing Industry -- The Major Companies -- The Medium-Sized Companies -- Small Publishers -- The Secondary Industry -- Military Testing -- Other Players -- The Fractured Market -- 3. The Extent of the Marketplace for Tests -- Direct Indicators of Growth in Educational Testing -- Indirect Indicators of Growth in Educational Testing -- The Extent of Standardized Testing in the Employment Sector -- The Expanding Marketplace for Testing -- 4. Social Investment in Educational Testing -- Costs and Benefits: What Are We Talking About? -- The Cost Structure of Educational Testing -- An Estimated Testing Cost Function -- Comparing Costs and Benefits at the Margin -- The Benefits of Testing -- 5. Forces Behind the Testing Marketplace -- Dissatisfaction and Reform -- Legislation -- The Focus on Outcomes of Schooling -- Bureaucratization of Education -- New Forces -- 6. Spin-Offs from the Testing Industry -- The Computer Connection -- Test Preparation and Coaching -- Honesty Testing -- 7. Test Quality and the Fractured Marketplace for Testing -- Quality in Testing -- The Lake Wobegon Phenomenon -- The Marketing of Tests and Related Services -- The RFP Process -- Computer-Based Test Interpretation -- Test Preparation and Coaching -- Minor Mold or Major Blight? -- 8. Mending the Fractured Marketplace -- Fractures in the Testing Marketplace -- Recent Proposals for New National Tests -- Strategies for Mending the Fractured Marketplace -- Conclusion -- App. 1 Estimation of Number of Students Tested in State-Mandated Testing Programs -- App. 2 Consumer Price Index Adjustments for Inflation -- App. 3 Calculation of Standardized Growth Expectations (SGEs).
- ISBN
- 0792393384
- 9780792393382
- LCCN
- 93021880
- OCLC
- ocm27677798
- 27677798
- SCSB-1986058
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library