Myth of Achievement Tests - The Ged and the Role of Character in American Life

Informationen zum Autor James J. Heckman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. He is the director of the Economics Research Center at the University of Chicago and codirector of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, an initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Becker-Friedman Institute. John Eric Humphries is a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. Tim Kautz is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago and the recipient of a National Science Foundation fellowship. Klappentext "The GED and the Role of Character in American Life "offers in-depth historical and analytical explorations of how the GED came to be used on such a grand scale and why our reliance on it is so pernicious. For example, the main organization that administers the test, the American Council on Education, has for decades prevented the US Census from distinguishing GEDs from high-school graduates, and thus prevented honest evaluations of the GED s effectiveness. Also, due to a reliance on achievement tests and programs like No Child Left Behind, schools were given an incentive to encourage low-performing students to drop out and take the GED to get them off the books without penalty. So the GED program creates problems by inducing students to drop out of school, and it conceals major social problems by passing off GEDs as high-school graduates. The essays in this book definitively establish that, as a group, GEDs are not the equivalents of high-school graduates. The book explains statistically how most GEDs perform at the level of high-school dropouts in the labor market, in marriage, in the military, and in society at large. "

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• Authors: James J. Heckman, James J. Humphries Heckman
• Assisted by: James J Heckman (Editor), James J. Heckman (Editor), Heckman James J. (Editor), John Eric Humphries (Editor), Humphries John Eric (Editor), Tim Kautz (Editor), Kautz Tim (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2015
• EAN: 9780226324807
• ISBN: 978-0-226-32480-7
• No. of pages: 472
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; USA, EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement, EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment, Secondary Schools, United States of America, USA, Education: examinations and assessment, Examinations & assessment, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary