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Author Farley, Todd.

Title Making the grades : my misadventures in the standardized testing industry / Todd S. Farley.

Publication Info. Sausalito, Calif. : PoliPointPress ; [LaVergne, Tenn.] : Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 253 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Includes index.
Contents Wage slave. Scoring monkey -- Numbers -- Wheat from the chaff -- Off task -- Management. Table leader -- Oracle of Princeton -- King of scoring -- A real job -- Retirement. My own private Halliburton -- Working in theory -- Warm bodies.
Summary 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.
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Subject Farley, Todd -- Career in test scoring.
Farley, Todd.
Farley, Todd.
Examinations -- United States -- Scoring.
Examinations.
United States.
Business and education -- United States.
Business and education.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Farley, Todd. Making the grades. Sausalito, Calif. : PoliPointPress ; [LaVergne, Tenn.] : Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services, 2009 9780981709154 (DLC) 2009018151 (OCoLC)313653912
ISBN 9781609944735 (electronic book)
1609944739 (electronic book)
9780981709154
098170915X