1. Today's Standardized Admissions Tests: How Did They Come To Be? 2. The Big Picture: How Are Standardized Tests Used in Admissions Decisions? 3. Conventional and Computerized Admissions Tests: How Are They Developed and Scored? 4. Test Validity: How Well Do Admissions Tests Measure Academic Skills and Predict Future Achievement? 5. Are Standardized Admissions Tests Fair to People of Color? 6. Are Standardized Admissions Tests Fair to Women? 7. Gaming the Tests: How Do Coaching and Cheating Affect Test Performance? 8. New Directions for Admissions Testing: What Does the Future Hold?
Rebecca Zwick is Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an expert on testing. She formerly worked for the Educational Testing Service, studying whether tests like the GRE and GMAT are fair and predict success. Her articles have appeared in Education Week and Phi Delta Kappan.
"Zwick does a superb job of demonstrating that these tests are part
of larger social and educational problems that cannot be solved
simply by eliminating their use. I know of no other book that
tackles this issue in such user-friendly language." -- Patricia
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ofLow-Income Chicanos
"Fair Game? is even-handed and fun to read. Rebecca Zwick
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policy." -- Michael Kirst, Stanford University
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Many testing policy debates are replete with charges and counter
charges about testing that are partial and misleading. Fair Game is
comprehensive, and ends with new research-based directions for
policy." -- Michael Kirst, Professor of Education, Stanford
University School of Education
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