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The Tyranny of Testing Book

The Tyranny of Testing
The Tyranny of Testing, In this classic critique, a mathematician and educator — who served for many years as a test consultant — challenges the supremacy of standardized testing, demonstrating the inherent flaws in aptitude and achievement tests. Recommended reading for teacher, The Tyranny of Testing has a rating of 4 stars
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  • The Tyranny of Testing
  • Written by author Banesh Hoffman
  • Published by Dover Publications, August 2003
  • In this classic critique, a mathematician and educator — who served for many years as a test consultant — challenges the supremacy of standardized testing, demonstrating the inherent flaws in aptitude and achievement tests. Recommended reading for teacher
  • The use of multiple choice tests to assess student achievement has probably only grown since this 1964 critique of them as a method of measuring anything. Written by mathematician and educator Hoffmann, the work explains how unintentional ambiguity can fr
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Authors

1A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing17
2The Business of Testing29
3The Flight from Subjectivity43
4Objectivity and Ambiguity59
5The "Best" Answer77
6Better Minds91
7"What's in a name?"103
8National Merit125
9Statistics135
10Challenge to the Testers149
11Critical Thinking159
12Editorial Woes165
13"The wind bloweth where it listeth"173
14Return to the Colonies179
15Interlude on the Advantages of Science183
16Einstein Slighted185
17Light on the Atom189
18David and Goliath199
19Don't Be Pro-Test--Protest209
Index219


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