How Testing Came to Dominate American Schools: The History of Educational Assessment by Giordano, Gerard

How Testing Came to Dominate American Schools: The History of Educational Assessment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820472553)

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How Testing Came to Dominate American Schools: The History of Educational Assessment by Giordano, Gerard

How Testing Came to Dominate American Schools: The History of Educational Assessment

$48.90
How Testing Came to Dominate American Schools: The History of Educational Assessment by Giordano, Gerard

How Testing Came to Dominate American Schools: The History of Educational Assessment

$48.90
Format: Paperback
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Although originally designed as instruments to gauge students' progress, tests eventually were used to modify curricula, learning materials, pedagogy, and many practical features of schooling. Tests were employed to shape attitudes toward national issues such as employment, immigration, and defense. Worried about the enormous consequences that were at stake, advocates and opponents pitched their cases to educators, parents, journalists, and policymakers and also targeted special audiences. Testing proponents pleaded with military leaders, businesspeople, and scholastic publishers while their adversaries appealed to job seekers, college applicants, racial minorities, and anti-establishmentarians. This book illustrates how all of these parties showed interest; many became passionate; and some decisively influenced the course of American educational testing.

Author: Gerard Giordano
ISBN-10: 0820472557
ISBN-13: 9780820472553
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2005
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
By Gerard Giordano
By Gerard Giordano
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The Author: Gerard Giordano is Professor and Provost at the University of North Florida. He has written nearly two hundred reports that have appeared in national journals. He is the author of two tests, numerous chapters, and six previous books, including Twentieth-Century Textbook Wars: A History of Advocacy and Opposition (Peter Lang, 2003) and Wartime Schools: How World War II Changed American Education (Peter Lang, 2004).

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