Testing Testing Social Consequences of the Examined Life.

This book is about how our addiction to testing influences both society and ourselves as socially defined persons. The analysis focuses on tests of people, particularly tests in schools, intelligence tests, vocational interest tests, lie detection, integrity tests, and drug tests. Diagnostic psychia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hanson, F. Allan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2020.
Temas:
Self-perception > Social aspects > United States.
Examinations > United States > Psychological aspects.
Examinations > Social aspects > United States.
Examinations > History.
Social control.
Examinations.
Examinations > Psychological aspects.
Examinations > Social aspects.
Self-perception > Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This book is about how our addiction to testing influences both society and ourselves as socially defined persons. The analysis focuses on tests of people, particularly tests in schools, intelligence tests, vocational interest tests, lie detection, integrity tests, and drug tests. Diagnostic psychiatric tests and medical tests are included only tangentially. A good deal of the descriptive material will be familiar to readers from their personal experience as t.
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (392 p.)
ISBN:9780520310964
0520310969

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