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The Fractured Marketplace for Standardized Testing

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Haney, Walter M., Madaus, George F. (Author), Lyons, Robert (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1993, 1993
Edition:1st ed. 1993
Series:Evaluation in Education and Human Services
Subjects:
Assessment And Testing
Education
Educational Tests And Measurements
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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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