Test policy and test performance : education, language, and culture

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Contributors = ⅶ
• Introduction = ⅸ
• Ⅰ TESTS AS TOOLS OF EDUCATIONAL POLICY: THEORY, ATTRIBUTION, AND BELIEF
• Mandated Tests: Educational Reform or Quality Indicator? / Eva L. Baker = 3
• Student Achievement Tests as Tools of Educational Policy: Practices and Consequences / Edward Haertel = 25
• Making Sense of School Testing / Walter M. Haney = 51
• The Irish Study Revisited / George F. Madaus = 63
• Ⅱ TESTS IN EDUCATIONAL DECISION MAKING: PSYCHOMETRIC AND POLITICAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
• Using Test Scores for Decision Making / William A. Mehrens = 93
• If Not Tests, Then What? Conference Remarks / Christopher Jencks = 115
• Advice to the Commission Conference Remarks / George Hanford = 123
• Ⅲ LANGUAGE, CULTURE, ETHNICITY, AND TESTING
• Aspects of Differential Performance by Minorities on Standardized Tests: Linguistic and Sociocultural Factors / Mary Catherine O'Connor = 129
• Ethnic Group Differences in the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Performance of American Youth: Implications for Career Prospects / Elsie G. J. Moore = 183
• Testing Bilingual Proficiency for Specialized Occupations: Issues and Implications / Guadalupe Vald$$\acute e$$s = 207
• Informal Assessment of Asian Americans: A Cultural and Linguistic Mismatch? / Chui Lim Tsang = 231
• Black and White Cultural Styles in Pluralistic Perspective / Thomas Kochman = 259
• Index = 297