Description: Test Policy and the Politics of Opportunity Allocation : The Workplace and the Law, Paperback by Gifford, Bernard R. (EDT), ISBN 9401076294, ISBN-13 9789401076296, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Bernard R. Gifford In the United States, the standardized test has become one of the major sources of information for reducing uncertainty in the determination of individual merit and in the allocation of merit-based educational, training, and employment opportunities. Most major institutions of higher education require applicants to supplement their records of academic achievements with scores on standardized tests. Similarly, in the workplace, as a condition of employment or assignment to training programs, more and more employers are requiring prospective employees to sit for standardized tests. In short, with increasing frequency and intensity, individual members of the political economy are required to transmit to the opportunity marketplace scores on standardized examinations that purport to be objective measures of their and potential. In many instances, these test scores are the abilities, talents, only signals about their skills that job applicants are permitted to send to prospective employers. THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TESTING AND PUBLIC POLICY In view of the importance of these issues to our current national agenda, it was proposed that the Human Rights and Governance and the Education and Culture Programs of the Ford Foundation support the establishment of a ''blue ribbon" National Commission on Testing and Public Policy to investigate some of the major problems as well as the untapped opportunities created by recent trends in the use of standardized tests, particularly in the workplace and in schools.
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Book Title: Test Policy and the Politics of Opportunity Allocation : The Work
Number of Pages: Xii, 308 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Test Policy and the Politics of Opportunity Allocation: the Workplace and the Law
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Subject: Public Policy / Economic Policy, Testing & Measurement
Publication Year: 2011
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Education
Author: Bernard R. Gifford
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
