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- catalog abstract ""This book offers an extensive reading of the controversies surrounding educational testing. It focuses attention on the challenges to standardized testing, the emergence of performance-based and outcome-based education, and the eventual decline of these reform efforts. What makes the book unique is attention to the rhetoric of educational reform, the way these reforms were talked about, proposed and challenged. The analysis covers discussions of educational testing occurring in psychometric literatures, political arenas, popular press accounts, and professional educational forums." "Readers interested in educational testing, educational policy or practice will find this book offers a valuable perspective on the powerful effect of rhetoric on our conception of education and its evaluation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12818451.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""This book offers an extensive reading of the controversies surrounding educational testing. It focuses attention on the challenges to standardized testing, the emergence of performance-based and outcome-based education, and the eventual decline of these reform efforts. What makes the book unique is attention to the rhetoric of educational reform, the way these reforms were talked about, proposed and challenged. The analysis covers discussions of educational testing occurring in psychometric literatures, political arenas, popular press accounts, and professional educational forums." "Readers interested in educational testing, educational policy or practice will find this book offers a valuable perspective on the powerful effect of rhetoric on our conception of education and its evaluation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-172) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Rhetoric, education, controversy -- Accountability, objectives, products -- Products, objectives, accountability -- Accountability at risk -- Performance, outcomes, real world -- The president's goal -- Outcomes-real world-performance -- Education, controversy, rhetoric.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 177 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Testing controversy.".
- catalog identifier "1572734736 (cl)".
- catalog identifier "1572734744 (pb)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Testing controversy.".
- catalog isPartOf "Understanding education and policy".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press,".
- catalog relation "Testing controversy.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "371.26/4/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Education Aims and objectives United States.".
- catalog subject "Education and state United States.".
- catalog subject "Educational tests and measurements United States.".
- catalog subject "LB3051 .P545 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Rhetoric, education, controversy -- Accountability, objectives, products -- Products, objectives, accountability -- Accountability at risk -- Performance, outcomes, real world -- The president's goal -- Outcomes-real world-performance -- Education, controversy, rhetoric.".
- catalog title "Testing controversy : a rhetoric of education / by Kendall R. Phillips.".
- catalog type "text".