Standardized Testing: Meritocracy's Crooked Yardstick.

Sacks, Peter

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ERIC Number: EJ541292

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Publication Date: 1997

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Standardized Testing: Meritocracy's Crooked Yardstick.

Sacks, Peter

Change, v29 n2 p24-31 Mar-Apr 1997

Discusses the entrenched nature of standardized testing in the educational system, the anti-testing movement and its supporting evidence, shifts in policy since 1980, current trends, the investment of publishers and test-makers in standardized testing, the true costs of standardized testing, and specifically "American" characteristics of standardized tests. (MSE)

Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Costs, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Publishing Industry, Standardized Tests, Test Reliability, Test Use, Test Validity, Trend Analysis, Undergraduate Study

Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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