عنوان

Kill the messenger :

شابک

0765801787 (cloth : alk. paper)

شابک

9780765801784 (cloth : alk. paper)

شماره

b525545

عنوان اصلي

Kill the messenger :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the war on standardized testing /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Richard P. Phelps ; with a foreword by Herbert J. Walberg and a preface by J.E. Stone.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New Brunswick, N.J. :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Transaction Publishers,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c2003.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xix, 331 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill. ;

ابعاد

23 cm.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-319) and index.

متن يادداشت

Reveille : prelude to battle (introduction) -- 1. The battlefield (testing systems and testing interests) -- 2. Attack strategies and tactics -- 3. Campaigns : the big, bad SAT -- 4. Campaigns : Texas, the early years -- 5. Campaigns : Texas, the presidential election year 2000 -- 6. War correspondence (media coverage of testing) -- 7. The fruits of victory (benefits of testing) -- 8. The spoils of war (valid concerns about testing) -- 9. The agony of defeat (the consequences of losing the war : the alternatives to standardized testing) -- Appendix : an anti-testing vocabulary

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"Kill the Messenger is perhaps the most thorough and authoritative work in defense of educational testing ever written. Phelps points out that much research conducted by education insiders on the topic is based on ideological preference or profound self-interest. It is not surprising that they arrive at emphatically anti-testing conclusions. He notes that "external" and "high stakes" testing in particular attracts a cornucopia of invective. Much, if not most, of this hostile research is passed on to the public by journalists as if it were neutral, objective, and independent." "Kill the Messenger describes the current debate, the players, their interests, and their positions. It explains and refutes many of the common criticisms of testing. It describes testing opponents' strategies, through case studies of Texas and the SAT. It illustrates the profound media bias against testing. It acknowledges testing's limitations, and suggests how it can be improved. It defends testing by comparing it with its alternatives. And finally, it outlines the consequences for America of losing the "war on standardized testing.""--BOOK JACKET.

موضوع مستند نشده

Education-- Standards-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Educational accountability-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Educational tests and measurements-- United States.

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Phelps, Richard P.

تاريخ عمليات

20110505094524.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y