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The Myth of Achievement Tests
By:James J. Heckman,John Eric Humphries,Tim Kautz
Published on 2014-01-14 by University of Chicago Press

Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to identify weaknesses in student knowledge. The GED is an achievement test used to grant the status of high school graduate to anyone who passes it. GED recipients currently account for 12 percent of all high school credentials issued each year in the United States. But do achievement tests predict success in life? The Myth of Achievement Tests shows that achievement tests like the GED fail to measure important life skills. James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Tim Kautz, and a group of scholars offer an in-depth exploration of how the GED came to be used throughout the United States and why our reliance on it is dangerous. Drawing on decades of research, the authors show that, while GED recipients score as well on achievement tests as high school graduates who do not enroll in college, high school graduates vastly outperform GED recipients in terms of their earnings, employment opportunities, educational attainment, and health. The authors show that the differences in success between GED recipients and high school graduates are driven by character skills. Achievement tests like the GED do not adequately capture character skills like conscientiousness, perseverance, sociability, and curiosity. These skills are important in predicting a variety of life outcomes. They can be measured, and they can be taught. Using the GED as a case study, the authors explore what achievement tests miss and show the dangers of an educational system based on them. They call for a return to an emphasis on character in our schools, our systems of accountability, and our national dialogue. Contributors Eric Grodsky, University of Wisconsin–Madison Andrew Halpern-Manners, Indiana University Bloomington Paul A. LaFontaine, Federal Communications Commission Janice H. Laurence, Temple University Lois M. Quinn, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Pedro L. Rodríguez, Institute of Advanced Studies in Administration John Robert Warren, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Do not you sort of hate how we have joined the decadent phase of Goodreads whereby perhaps fifty per cent (or more) of the evaluations written by non-teenagers and non-romancers are actually nude and unabashed within their variously successful attempts at being arch, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Do not you kind of pine (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's merry druthers) for the nice ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all opinions were uniformly plainspoke Do not you type of hate how we have joined the decadent period of Goodreads when perhaps fifty percent (or more) of the evaluations compiled by non-teenagers and non-romancers are actually nude and unabashed in their variously efficient efforts at being arch, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? 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(Please understand that several a sic are intended in the following reviews.) its actually difficult and silly! why cant we be reading like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the least that book is good! There you have it. Refreshingly, not a review prepared in among the witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Only a primal yell unleashed to the black wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teenager, but I admire his power to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and an understanding that renders his convictions all the more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's report on exactly the same play. You may'know'MICHAEL; he's the'Problems Architect'here at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... which might be the case, for several I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you don't want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it was meant to be read, then it will be a novel, not just a play. Along with that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for each character for a couple pages). None of us had browse the play before. None of us wanted to learn it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. All this compounded to create me pretty much hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And yes it can actually fuck up your GPA. 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The moment in an awesome although, when you get neck-deep within dandified pomo hijinks, it really is a fantastic wallow inside the pig put in writing you happen to be itchin'for. Thank you so much, Jo. I love mom and her useless clasping with similes that will are unable to strategy a bilious hate in your heart. You are my very own, along with I am yours. Figuratively communicating, of course. And from now on the following is this evaluation: Macbeth by simply William Shakespeare is the greatest literary perform inside the English language dialect, plus anyone that disagrees is definitely an asshole and also a dumbhead.