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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] NYTimes Ad on Proper Test Use
The Wednesday, January 17, 2001 national edition of the New York Times includes a quarter-page ad sponsored by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) titled "Testing: Snapshots Should Note Lead to Snap Judgments." The text is an essay by the new ETS President Kurt Landgraf and includes such good (but fundamentally naive) statements as: "Inherently, candidates and elected officials must know that presenting test scores as isolated measures of success or failure is a far too narrow and easy way of assessing education today." While hardly an anti-testing tract (it endorses the use of "valid, reliable, high-quality testing" -- whatever that is -- as one component of assessment), it is still a useful document to demonstrate that even the "IBM" of the testing industry opposes what most politicians endorse. Check out a copy at your local library or out-of-town newsstand. (Because this is an ad, you will not find it on the NYTimes website) Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director FairTest: National Center for Fair & Open Testing -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the ARN-L list, send command SIGNOFF ARN-L to LISTSERV@LISTS.CUA.EDU.
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