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Nonscientific Motives in Assessment Organizations
Pages 11-12

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... A clear example is the high school Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) which was created primarily to give military recruiters a iiSt of promising targets for a sales pitch.
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... One project, for which ~ was a statistical analyst, produced achievement tests that showed profiles for types of competences or errors within a school subject. ~ found that one score being fed back to teachers had a negative reliability coefficient.
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