Frontmatter
Contents
Prologue
1. If Only It Were So Simple
2. What Is a Test?
3. What We Measure: Just How Good Is the Sample?
4. The Evolution of American Testing
5. What Test Scores Tell Us about American Kids
6. What Influences Test Scores, or How Not to Pick a School
7. Error and Reliability: How Much We Don't Know What We're Talking About
8. Reporting Performance: Standards and Scales
9. Validity
10. Inflated Test Scores
11. Adverse Impact and Bias
12. Testing Students with Special N
13. Sensible Uses of Tests
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index