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

By:

Farley, Todd

Material type: Text

TextSeries: 0Publication details: Sausalito, Calif. : PoliPointPress ; [LaVergne, Tenn.] : Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 253 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781609944735
1609944739
1283146630
9781283146630
9786613146632
6613146633

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making the grades.DDC classification:

371.26/2 22

LOC classification:

LB3060.77 .F37 2009eb

Other classification:

DO 1252
5,3

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Contents:

Wage slave. Scoring monkey -- Numbers -- The wheat from the chaff -- Off task -- Management. Table leader -- The oracle of Princeton -- The king of scoring -- A real job -- Retirement. My own private Halliburton -- Working in theory -- Warm bodies.

Summary: The No Child Left Behind Act uses the phrase scientifically-based research more than 100 times when discussing standardized testing, but Making the Grades raises serious questions about the validity of many large-scale assessments simply by describing one man's career in the industry. This first-hand account of life in the testing business is alternately edifying and hilarious.

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The No Child Left Behind Act uses the phrase scientifically-based research more than 100 times when discussing standardized testing, but Making the Grades raises serious questions about the validity of many large-scale assessments simply by describing one man's career in the industry. This first-hand account of life in the testing business is alternately edifying and hilarious.