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Measuring Up - What Educational Testing Really Tells Us - Daniel Koretz

Measuring Up demystifies educational testing-from MCAS to SAT to WAIS. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education.

DKK 270.95

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Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing - Lorraine M. McDonnell

Exploring the political struggles inspired by mass educational tests, McDonnell analyzes the design and implementation of statewide testing in California, Kentucky, and North Carolina in the 1990s. McDonnell draws lessons from these stories for the federal No Child Left Behind act, with its sweeping directives for high-stakes testing.

DKK 713.95

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Testing Prayer - Science and Healing - Candy Gunther Brown

Drawing on medical records, surveys of prayer recipients, prospective clinical trials, and multiyear follow-up observations and interviews, Brown shows that the widespread perception of prayer's healing power has demonstrable social effects which can in some cases produce improvements in health that can be scientifically verified.

DKK 382.95

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Testing Macroeconometric Models - Ray C (Yale University) Fair

This book gives a practical, applications-oriented account of the latest techniques for estimating and analyzing large, nonlinear macroeconometric models. Anyone wanting to learn how to use these models, including researchers, graduate students, economic forecasters, and people in business and government both in the United States and abroad, will find this an essential guid.

DKK 561.95

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Testing Wars in the Public Schools - A Forgotten History - William J. Reese

Despite claims that written exams narrowed the curriculum, ruined children's health, and turned teachers into automatons, once tests took root in American schools their legitimacy was never seriously challenged. William Reese puts today's battles over standards and benchmarks into perspective by showcasing the history of the pencil-and-paper exam.

DKK 510.95

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Private Choices and Public Health - The AIDS Epidemic in an Economic Perspective - Tomas J. Philipson

Employs the tools of economic analysis to reassess the orthodox approach to AIDS by the public health community. It examines measures and proposals such as testing, criminal punishments and immigration controls, as well as AIDS education, medical research and the social and fiscal costs of AIDS.

DKK 725.95

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College Admissions for the 21st Century - Robert J. Sternberg

SATs, ACTs, GPAs. Everyone knows that these scores can't tell a college everything that's important about an applicant. But what else should admissions officers look for, and how can they know it when they see it? This title offers a practical approach to college admissions testing.

DKK 498.95

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Family Trees - A History of Genealogy in America - Francois Weil

Americans' long and restless search for identity through family trees illuminates the story of America itself, according to Francois Weil, as preoccupation with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way to an embrace of diversity in one's forebears, pursued through Ancestry.com and advances in DNA testing.

DKK 382.95

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Legally Poisoned - How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants - Carl F. Cranor

Take a random walk through your life and you'll find it is awash in industrial, often toxic, chemicals. In this scientifically rigorous legal analysis, the author argues that just as pharmaceuticals and pesticides cannot be sold without pre-market testing, other chemical products should be subject to the same safety measures.

DKK 243.95

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The Hungry Mind - The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood - Susan Engel

Despite American education's mania for standardized tests, testing misses what matters most about learning: the desire to learn in the first place. Susan Engel offers a highly readable exploration of what curiosity is, how it can be measured, how it develops in childhood, and how educators can put curiosity at the center of the classroom.

DKK 272.95

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Governing the Workplace - Paul C (Harvard Law School) Weiler

Labor lawyer Paul Weiler examines the social and economic changes that have profoundly altered the legal framework of the employment relationship. He not only discusses a wide range of issues, from wrongful dismissal to mandatory drug testing and pay equity, but he also develops a blueprint for the reconstruction of the law of the workplace, especially designed to give American workers more effective representation.

DKK 735.95

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Will and Political Legitimacy - Dr Patrick (University of Wisconsin Madison) Riley

At the heart of representative government is the question: \What makes government and its agents legitimate authorities?\ The notion of consent to a social contract between the citizen and his government is central to this problem. What are the functions of public authority? What are the people's rights in a self-governing and representative state? Patrick Riley presents a comprehensive historical analysis of the meaning of contract theory and a testing of the inherent validity of the ideas of..

DKK 729.95

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