Testing testing
Subtitle: social consequences of the examined life
By: F. Allan Hanson.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Self-perception -- Social aspects -- United States.; Examinations -- United States -- Psychological aspects.; Examinations -- Social aspects -- United States.; Examinations -- History.; Social control.
Description: This book is about how our addiction to testing influences both society and ourselves as socially defined persons. The analysis focuses on tests of people, particularly tests in schools, intelligence tests, vocational interest tests, lie detection, integrity tests, and drug tests. Diagnostic psychiatric tests and medical tests are included only tangentially. --From publisher's description.
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-374) and index.