Word: fowlers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team--educational writer Anne Wheelock,Boston College Professor Walter Haney and SalemState Professor Clarke Fowler--published a reportcritiquing the MECT as unreliable, citing a highmargin of error, a huge variance between readingand writing scores and test administrationtroubles...
...Fowler says it is the MECT specifically,and not testing as a concept, that he objects...
...Fowler, along with the report's co-authors,points to NES's lack of pre-testing or externalreview as its major problems...
...despite the lack of access to the exam questions, education writer Anne Wheelock, Boston College Professor Walter Haney and Salem State College Professor Clarke Fowler managed to find enough discrepancies in the scores themselves (coupled with interviews of test-takers) to declare the test an unfair indicator of teacher preparation...
...Assets, the long-distance company that uses a portion of its proceeds to fund liberal causes, set up a "1-877-TO-MOVE-ON" phone line to connect voters with their representatives. Geraldine Ferraro pitched in too: she worked the phones, calling Representatives Connie Morella of Maryland and Tillie Fowler of Florida for some girl talk. To the buttoned-up-right-to-her-brow Fowler, Ferraro made a down-and-dirty pitch: "Tillie...