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  Kill the Messenger is perhaps the most thorough and authoritative work in defense of educational testing ever written. Phelps points out that much research conducted by education insiders on the topic is based on ideological preference or profound self-interest. It is not surprising that they arrive at emphatically anti-testing conclusions. Much, if not most, of this hostile research is passed on to the public by journalists as if it were neutral, objective, and independent. This volume explains and refutes | List of Tables |
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| List of Figures |
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| Foreword |
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Reveille-Prelude to Battle (Introduction) |
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| 1. The Battlefield (Testing Systems and Testing Interests) |
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| 2. Attack Strategies and Tactics |
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| 3. Campaigns: The Big, Bad SAT |
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| 4. Campaigns: Texas, the Early Years |
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| 5. Campaigns: Texas, the Presidential Election Year 2000 |
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| 6. War Correspondence (Media Coverage of Testing) |
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147 | (68) |
| 7. The Fruits of Victory (Benefits of Testing) |
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215 | (50) |
| 8. The Spoils of War (Valid Concerns about Testing) |
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265 | (12) |
| 9. The Agony of Defeat (The Consequences of Losing the War: The Alternatives to Standardized Testing) |
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| Appendix An Anti-Testing Vocabulary |
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287 | (10) |
| Glossary |
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| References |
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| Index |
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