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Making the grades : my misadventures in the standardized testing industry / Todd S. Farley.

Making the grades : my misadventures in the standardized testing industry / Todd S. Farley.
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ISBN 9780981709154 (alk. paper)
098170915X (alk. paper)
Location 371.26 FAR offsite storage
Author Farley, Todd
Title Making the grades : my misadventures in the standardized testing industry / Todd S. Farley. [Book]
Published San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler, 2009.
Collation xi, 253 p. ; 22 cm.
General Note Includes index.
Excerpt available on publisher website at URL below.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Note Pt. 1. Wage Slave -- Ch. 1. Scoring Monkey -- Ch. 2. Numbers -- Ch. 3. The Wheat from the Chaff -- Ch. 4. Off Task -- Pt. 2. Management -- Ch. 5. Table Leader -- Ch. 6. The Oracle of Princeton -- Ch. 7. The King of Scoring -- Ch. 8. A Real Job -- Pt. 3. Retirement -- Ch. 9. My Own Private Halliburton -- Ch. 10. Working in Theory -- Ch. 11. Warm Bodies.
Summary Note "Just as American educators, parents, and policymakers reconsider the No Child Left Behind Act and its heavy emphasis on standardized testing, Todd Farley's 'Making the grades' raises questions about the validity of large-scale educational assessments. His behind-the-scenes account of the for-profit testing industry is provocative, hilarious, and instructive." - Back cover.
Personal Name Farley, Todd Career in test scoring
Subject Examinations -- United States -- Scoring
Business and education -- United States
Educational tests and measurements
Internet Site http://www.bkconnection.com/static/Making_the_Grades_EXCERPT.pdf
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