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ERIC Clearinghouse on Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation, Princeton, NJ. – 1985
This Digest overviews legal challenges in five areas of test use for decision-making in schools: ability tracking, placement in special education classes, test scores as college admissions criteria, test disclosure, and teacher competency testing. Cases illustrating these challenges are described and include: Hobson v. Hansen (1967), Moses v.…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Testing, Intelligence Tests, Legal Problems
Rudner, Lawrence M. – 1996
In educational research and evaluation, a sample of subjects usually received some type of programmatic treatment. Outcome scores for these students are then compared with outcome scores of a control or comparison group. M. Lewis and H. McGurk (1972) have pointed out that there are some implicit assumptions when this approach is applied to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research