TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farley,Todd
TI  - Making the grades: my misadventures in the standardized testing industry 
T2  - 0
SN  - 9781609944735
AV  - LB3060.77 .F37 2009eb
U1  - 371.26/2 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Sausalito, Calif., [LaVergne, Tenn.]
PB  - PoliPointPress, Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services
KW  - Farley, Todd
KW  - Farley, Todd.
KW  - Examinations
KW  - United States
KW  - Scoring
KW  - Business and education
KW  - Examens
KW  - Correction
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Industrie et éducation
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - STUDY AIDS
KW  - Tests
KW  - Testing & Measurement
KW  - fast
KW  - Beruf
KW  - gnd
KW  - Leistungsfähigkeit
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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