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Peer reviewedMessick, Samuel – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1982
The Committee on Ability Testing's report (see ED 213 770 and ED 213 771) is shown to give primacy to employment productivity and efficiency values, creating an institutional bias in their analysis of testing. The importance of a balance of alternative multiple perspectives to broaden testing criteria, standards, fairness, and social values served…
Descriptors: Ability, Advisory Committees, Bias, Educational Testing
Peer reviewedAdomanis, James F.; And Others – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 1995
Includes three brief essays responding to the current controversy over the National Standards for United States History. James F. Adomanis defends the standards and decries the media circus. Brian Boland casts a skeptical eye towards trendy educational reforms. Philip Reed Rulon finds the standards arbitrary and restrictive. (MJP)
Descriptors: Bias, Conservatism, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum Development
