A Valedictory Reflections on 60 Years in Educational Testing (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Pluses and Minuses in the Assessment Movement
Pluses and Minuses in the Assessment Movement
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The current developments in educational testing have three elements. I am enthusiastic about the first principle, to evaluate educational programs by seeking evidence of __, ~r~~~~ Lasswell, Harold D
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The call springs from the premise that people are no damn good; teachers don't really work at their jobs, and pupils work just enough to stay out of trouble. lames March once said, "The demand for accountability is a sign of pathology in the social system." The distrust was never more blatant than in a speech Nicholas Murray Butler made to h~lsines.smen in 1906, in speaking about the appointment of ~ school sl~nerinrenHenr.
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Many of them do require pupils to exercise mental discipline in organizing givens of a kind they never saw before and to draw inferences out of the structure they have created. But there is precious little that I, as an educational psy' chologist, could tell teachers about how to organize lessons so that, at the end of the year, transfer will occur to new sets of givens with another flavor.
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