Word: tested
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...December phone poll of 244 randomly-selected students, AEO found that of those who understood the difference between the two types of test 75 percent wanted UHS to switch to the anonymous tests...
Frazier acknowledged that confidential testingcannot completely protect patients' test resultsfrom outside scrutiny...
...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...
Among their more striking conclusions: The test has triple the degree of error of the SAT's; there is great variance between the writing and reading scores of some candidates (an unusual result, since both sections are supposed to measure verbal skills); and finally, there are remarkably inconsistent scores from those who took the test twice. Add to these findings the reports from some test-takers that the administration of the exam was disorganized and inconsistent, and it would seem worth re-evaluating this exam by actually seeing what it looks like...
...This is a smokescreen because they don't like teacher testing. These are the same people who would say, 'Well, we're going to pass Johnny to the fourth grade because we don't want to give him a failing grade because it might affect his self-esteem.' So then you put Johnny in the fourth grade and promote him to the fifth grade, and then he gets socially promoted to the teacher college. And then when he gets his teaching degree, he can't pass a literacy test. I don't go along with that. That...