Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry

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Overview

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 mans career in the industry. This first-hand account of life in the testing business is alternately edifying and hilarious.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780981709154
  • Publisher: PoliPointPress, LLC
  • Publication date: 10/1/2009
  • Pages: 253
  • Sales rank: 206,991
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

For 15 years, Todd Farley worked for many of the biggest testing companies and on some of the most important standardized education tests at the national, state, and local levels. He has written and scored tests in a variety of subject areas.

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  • Posted March 12, 2012

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    A stunning and highly readable book. We can't open the paper today without reading a story about education or education reform that mentions test scores. Test scores going up. Going down. Cheating. More tests being mandated. Teachers being rewarded or punished or even fired based on these standardized test scores. But after reading this book, you will never read these stories the same way again. Mr. Farley explains in great detail based on his own 15 years in the standardized testing industry how these tests are created and scored. Speed and profit come before accuracy. We have outsourced the education of our children to the lowest bidder and the test results are universally junk. Garbage in garbage out. Mr. Farley has been interviewed by CBS news, and has written Guest editorials for the New York Times and Washington Post. The No Child Left Behind/Race to the Top testing mania has gripped Washington under Republicans and Democrats alike. After reading this book, you'll be demanding congressional hearings.

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