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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sacks, Peter. Standardized minds. Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Books, c1999 (OCoLC)622359748 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Sacks |
| ISBN: | 0738202436 9780738202433 0738204331 9780738204338 |
| OCLC Number: | 43387232 |
| Description: | xii, 351 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Meritocracy's crooked yardstick -- Inventing intelligence: the origins of mental measurement -- Babes in test land: the sorting begins -- Crusade: rise of the test-driven accountability machine in our schools -- Crime and punishment: how the accountability machine hurts schoolchildren -- Great American dumb-down: how the accountability machine harms schools -- Do no harm: stopping the damage to American schools -- Unnatural selection: testing in the American workplace -- Standardized minds: thinking styles and the testing game -- The big business of testing -- Authentic achievement: assessing performance in American schools -- Harmful admissions: why the meritocracy needs fixing -- Beyond the SAT: merit that matters. |
| Responsibility: | Peter Sacks. |
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Abstract:
"Standardized Minds dramatically shows how our unhealthy and enduring obsession with intelligence testing affects us all, from the day we enter kindergarten to when we might apply for a job or seek a new profession. Drawing creative solutions from the headlines and the frontlines, Sacks demonstrates proven alternatives to such testing and details a plan to make the American meritocracy legitimate and fair."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Educational tests and measurements -- United States -- Evaluation.
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- Academic achievement -- United States.
- Standaardisatie.
- Tests.
- Studieresultaten.
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- Éducation -- Normes -- États-Unis.
- Rendement scolaire -- États-Unis.

