Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But finding funds just to keep the place open and buy a few books was a more immediate concern to most librarians. Delegates were united in a call to reapportion library funding from towns and cities to the Federal Government, which now pays only 5% of national library costs. A...
Although testmakers have generally eliminated such blatant cultural bias from current tests, Testing Digest and an anomalous group of other critics have lately come forward to demand new scrutiny of tests for bias and for the use of ambiguous questions. Probably more important, the critics also seek general reform in...
Two weeks ago at the NEA headquarters in Washington, the air resounded with attacks on testing. Representatives of reform-minded organizations plus a smattering of professors, school administrators and test experts from 28 states gathered at a meeting organized by a cumbersomely titled group ("Project to DEmystify the Established Standardized...
The meeting was divided about whether objection should be made to tests, to the misuse and overuse of tests, to the values of a test-happy society or to testing as an aid to inadvertent discrimination. But the conferees were clear enough about supporting a federal legislative measure, proposed by...
That may be an overstatement, and a criticism of blind reliance upon tests rather than of the testing companies themselves. Most companies have long cautioned against overdependence on scores. They note, correctly, that national exams deserve credit for enhancing educational opportunities, especially in the case of talented students from lackluster...