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The Tyranny of Testing
Hoffmann, Banesh
Publisher: Collier BooksYear First Published: 1962 Year Published: 1964 Pages: 224pp Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX6616 A reasoned attack on the exaggerated claims of mass 'objective' testing and its damaging effects. Abstract: - "There is no escaping the testers with their electrical scoring machines. They measure our I.Q.'s at regular intervalts. They fell admissions officers how many points worth of college aptitude we possess. They classify us en masse in the army. They screen us when we apply for jobs." Yet, as Hoffman shows, these tests "reward superficiality, ignore creativiy, and penalize the person with a probing, subtle mind." Banesh Hoffman exposes testing as a powerful big business ingeniously protected from public scrutiny by an aura of science. Subject Headings |