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The Measurement: of Ability Testing: Implications of Multiple Perspectives About Criteria and Standards.
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Messick, Samuel – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1982
The Committee on Ability Testing's report (see ED 213 770 and ED 213 771) is shown to give primacy to employment productivity and efficiency values, creating an institutional bias in their analysis of testing. The importance of a balance of alternative multiple perspectives to broaden testing criteria, standards, fairness, and social values served…
Descriptors: Ability, Advisory Committees, Bias, Educational Testing