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| Charles Killingsworth - 1968 - 112 pages
...the tests were not intended to "measure intelligence, nor attitudes, nor qualities of character. . . .What they measure are the skills which are among...participation in an increasingly technical world." If we apply a 25 to 35 per cent discount to the Negroes' reported years of schooling to make a rough... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1969 - 1290 pages
...report concedes categorically that the tests given were "culture bound." They measured skills that are most Important In our society for getting a good job...Consequently, a pupil's test results at the end of the public school provide a good measure of the range of opportunity open to him as he finishes school.... | |
| United States. National Commission for Manpower Policy - 1976 - 330 pages
...writing, calculating, and problem solving. The tests were designed to measure the skills which are the most important in our society for getting a good...participation in an increasingly technical world. The scores in each test were standardized so that the average over the national sample equaled 50 and... | |
| R. F. Price - 1986 - 334 pages
...out that these do not measure students' intelligence, attitudes or character, but rather skills that 'are among the most important in our society for getting...participation in an increasingly technical world' (Report cit. Silberman, 1971, 63). Silberman points out that the study owes its existence to a section... | |
| Seana McGovern - 1999 - 226 pages
...Coleman, Spring (1990) states that student achievement has come to be determined by tests which measure "the skills which are among the most important in...participation in an increasingly technical world" (p. 357). Hence, educational achievement tests have become important instruments for measuring a student's... | |
| Richard D. Kahlenberg - 2004 - 408 pages
...demonstrably "culturally biased" in favor of middle-class culture, but as lames Coleman noted many years ago, "what they measure are the skills which are among...society for getting a good job and moving up to a better one."49 Knowledge of basic math and verbal skills are not all that is needed to succeed, but failure... | |
| Richard D. Kahlenberg - 2004 - 412 pages
...demonstrably "culturally biased" in favor of middle-class culture, but as Iames Coleman noted many years ago, "what they measure are the skills which are among...the most important in our society for getting a good iob and moving up to a better one."49 Knowledge of basic math and verbal skills are not all that is... | |
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