[IPAC-List] Item Writing Makes the Washington Post

[Dr. Dennis Doverspike]

Richard

The famous not a lawyer, so the lawyers can chime in, but the reasons are
the laws are different for educational and certification tests. As are the
issues I believe of state and local rights. That is not to say the tests
have not been challenged, they are challenged all the time in different
ways. But, and maybe a lawyer could explain all of this, there seem to be
significant legal differences between using a test to select a teacher into
graduate school in education, to certify a teacher as being a teacher, and
for the school district to use a test to hire the teacher.

Dennis Doverspike, Ph.D., ABPP

Professor of Psychology

Director, Center for Organizational Research Senior Fellow of the Institute
for Life-Span Development and Gerontology Licensed Psychologist, #3539
(OHIO) Psychology Department University of Akron Akron, Ohio  44325-4301

330-972-8372 (Office)

330-972-5174 (Office Fax)

ddoverspike at uakron.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: ipac-list-bounces at ipacweb.org [mailto:ipac-list-bounces at ipacweb.org]
On Behalf Of Richard Arwood
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 11:24 AM
To: 'Reid Klion'; IPAC-List at ipacweb.org
Subject: Re: [IPAC-List] Item Writing Makes the Washington Post

I am still amazed at the fact that standardized exams like the ACT and the
SAT have not been challenged successfully, along with the multitude of
national exams used in middle schools and high schools; especially in large
urban school systems, given the established history of discrimination of
multiple-choice exams.

The time is likely coming where they too will be legally challenged.

..............RBA

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Richard Arwood, Fire Chief (retired -Memphis, TN)
Collierville, TN
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-----Original Message-----
From: ipac-list-bounces at ipacweb.org [mailto:ipac-list-bounces at ipacweb.org]
On Behalf Of Reid Klion
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 9:57 AM
To: IPAC-List at ipacweb.org
Subject: Re: [IPAC-List] Item Writing Makes the Washington Post

This shortened URL http://tiny.cc/itemwriting should work better as the
original one got truncated. Sorry-

Reid


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