Making the grades
Subtitle: my misadventures in the standardized testing industry
By: Todd S. Farley
Publisher: PoliPointPress; Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sausalito, Calif; [LaVergne, Tenn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780981709154
Subjects: Scoring; Business and education; Examinations; Leistungsfähigkeit; Career in test scoring; Beruf
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Wage slave.  Scoring monkey; title: Numbers; title: The wheat from the chaff; title: Off task; title: Management. Table leader; title: The oracle of Princeton; title: The king of scoring; title: A real job; title: Retirement.  My own private Halliburton; title: Working in theory; title: Warm bodies.