Testing Reasoning and Reasoning about Testing.

Haney, Walt

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Publication Date: 1984

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Testing Reasoning and Reasoning about Testing.

Haney, Walt

Review of Educational Research, v54 n4 p597-654 Win 1984

The research and development of mental (standardized) testing and its relationship to educational practice is traced historically from its pre-World War I roots to its controversial national prominence in the 1970s. How standardized tests have been used in research and in schools is analyzed. (BS)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Educational History, Educational Practices, Educational Testing, Psychometrics, Research Needs, Research Utilization, Standardized Tests, Test Results, Testing

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Earlier draft of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Association (68th, New Orleans, LA, April 23-27, 1984).