The Fractured Marketplace for Standardized Testing by Walter M. Haney, George F. Madaus, Robert Lyons.

Standardized testing in the United States has been increasing at a rapid pace in the last twenty-five years. The market for tests has not only been expanding rapidly, but has also been changing sharply in structure into a fractured marketplace. Indeed, one of the main features of this book is that t...

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Main Authors: Haney, Walter M. (Author), Madaus, George F. (Author), Lyons, Robert (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1993.
Edition:1st ed. 1993.
Series:Evaluation in Education and Human Services ; 34
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505 0 |a 1 Introduction -- 2 The Testing Industry -- The Major Companies -- The Medium-Sized Companies -- Small Publishers -- The Secondary Industry -- Military Testing -- Other Players -- The Fractured Market -- 3 The Extent of the Marketplace for Tests -- Direct Indicators of Growth in Educational Testing -- Indirect Indicators of Growth in Educational Testing -- The Extent of Standardized Testing in the Employment Sector -- The Expanding Marketplace for Testing -- 4 Social Investment in Educational Testing -- Costs and Benefits: What Are We Talking About? -- The Cost Structure of Educational Testing -- An Estimated Testing Cost Function -- Comparing Costs and Benefits at the Margin -- The Benefits of Testing -- 5 Forces Behind the Testing Marketplace -- Dissatisfaction and Reform -- Legislation -- The Focus on Outcomes of Schooling -- Bureaucratization of Education -- New Forces -- 6 Spin-Offs from the Testing Industry -- The Computer Connection -- Test Preparation and Coaching -- Honesty Testing -- 7 Test Quality and the Fractured Marketplace for Testing -- Quality in Testing -- The Lake Wobegon Phenomenon -- The Marketing of Tests and Related Services -- The RFP Process -- Computer-Based Test Interpretation -- Test Preparation and Coaching -- Minor Mold or Major Blight? -- 8 Mending the Fractured Marketplace -- Fractures in the Testing Marketplace -- Recent Proposals for New National Tests -- Strategies for Mending the Fractured Marketplace -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendices -- 1 Estimation of Number of Students Tested in State-Mandated Testing Programs -- 2 Consumer Price Index Adjustments for Inflation -- 3 Calculation of Standardized Growth Expectations (SGEs). 
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