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Dec 12 2010
03:11:pm
JOBS! Standardized test scorers
By: EricLykins  shortURL

"Race to Behind"

Test scoring is a huge business, dominated by a few multinational corporations, which arrange the work in order to extract maximum profit. I was shocked when I found out that Pearson, the first company I worked for, also owned the Financial Times, The Economist, Penguin Books, and leading textbook publisher Prentice Hall. The CEO of Pearson, Marjorie Scardino, ranked seventeenth on the Forbes list of the one hundred most powerful women in the world in 2007

Unfortunately, after scoring tests for at least five states over the past three years, the only truly standardized elements I have found are a mystifying training process, supervisors who are often more confused than the scorers themselves, and a pervasive inability of these tests to foster creativity and competent writing

“Hey, it beats working at Subway or McDonald’s.”

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See also: Follow Up on International Comparisons & China’s Education Model from Stick

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I was going to post on the

Submitted by Stick on Sun, 2010/12/12 - 4:48pm.

I was going to post on the for-profits milking the military of funding, but I'm linking to you instead. If that is a credible account of the testing industry, it's worse than I imagined. Wow...

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New debt bubble and crisis of creativity

Submitted by EricLykins on Sun, 2010/12/12 - 6:17pm.

As with health care, the good stuff is heading out of the price range of the peasantry.

student loans now eclipse credit card debt

and from K to grad school we're as a whole getting a smaller return on our investment.

When faculty of a major Chinese university asked Plucker to identify trends in American education, he described our focus on standardized curriculum, rote memorization, and nationalized testing. “After my answer was translated, they just started laughing out loud,” Plucker says. “They said, ‘You’re racing toward our old model. But we’re racing toward your model, as fast as we can.’ ”

funny stuff.

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