Making the grades :: my misadventures in the standardized testing industry /
The No Child Left Behind Act uses the phrase scientifically-based research more than 100 times when discussing standardized testing, but Making the Grades raises serious questions about the validity of many large-scale assessments simply by describing one man's career in the industry. This firs...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The No Child Left Behind Act uses the phrase scientifically-based research more than 100 times when discussing standardized testing, but Making the Grades raises serious questions about the validity of many large-scale assessments simply by describing one man's career in the industry. This first-hand account of life in the testing business is alternately edifying and hilarious. |
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| spelling | Farley, Todd. Making the grades : my misadventures in the standardized testing industry / Todd S. Farley. Sausalito, Calif. : PoliPointPress ; [LaVergne, Tenn.] : Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services, 2009. 1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 0 Wage slave. Scoring monkey -- Numbers -- The wheat from the chaff -- Off task -- Management. Table leader -- The oracle of Princeton -- The king of scoring -- A real job -- Retirement. My own private Halliburton -- Working in theory -- Warm bodies. The No Child Left Behind Act uses the phrase scientifically-based research more than 100 times when discussing standardized testing, but Making the Grades raises serious questions about the validity of many large-scale assessments simply by describing one man's career in the industry. This first-hand account of life in the testing business is alternately edifying and hilarious. Print version record. English. Farley, Todd Career in test scoring. Farley, Todd fast Examinations United States Scoring. Business and education United States. Examens Correction États-Unis. Industrie et éducation États-Unis. EDUCATION Evaluation. bisacsh STUDY AIDS Tests. bisacsh EDUCATION Testing & Measurement. bisacsh Business and education fast Examinations Scoring fast United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq Beruf gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4005857-8 Leistungsfähigkeit gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4035236-5 USA gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4078704-7 Print version: Farley, Todd. Making the grades. Sausalito, Calif. : PoliPointPress ; [LaVergne, Tenn.] : Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services, 2009 9780981709154 (DLC) 2009018151 (OCoLC)313653912 0. |
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