The Vicious and the Virtuous: ETS and College Admissions.

Autor/in	Wiley, David E.
Institution	Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL.
Titel	The Vicious and the Virtuous: ETS and College Admissions.
Quelle	(1981) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monografie
Schlagwörter	Book Reviews; College Entrance Examinations; Test Format; Test Validity; Testing; Testing Problems; SAT (College Admission Test) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Book reviewing; Book review; Rezension; Aufnahmeprüfung; Testentwicklung; Testvalidität; Testdurchführung; Testen
Abstract	The Ralph Nader report on the Educational Testing Service (ETS), entitled The Reign of ETS, the Corporation That Makes Up Minds, explicitly and implicitly raises serious issues concerning the testing enterprise. Major themes include the role of testing in the educational selection system, the validity of existing tests, and the corporate power of ETS. This paper explores and evaluates charges from the perspectives of social and educational policy and of psychometric theory and practice. The currently polarized controversy over testing is reflected: advocates of testing believing in the validity and social utility of both the science and technology of mental measurement, and critics proclaiming that technical inadequacies and social harms make the enterprise inherently vicious and invidiously midleading. The paper concludes that the tests are central to the sorting of individuals into successive types of education. It advocates a more open procedure for specifying the content of selection tests, and concludes that current psychometric conceptions are inadequate for a meaningful assessment of the validity of tests. (Author/GK)
Begutachtung	unbekannt
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC