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EDUCATION: What's Wrong with Inferences from Test Scores?
Edward Haertel
Measuring Up
What Educational Testing Really Tells Us by Daniel Koretz
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 361 pp. $29.95, £22.95, €27. ISBN 9780674028050.
In this account of the complexities of educational testing written for nonspecialists, Koretz discusses what such tests can and cannot reveal and how test scores can be misunderstood and misused.
The reviewer is at the School of Education, 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-3096, USA. E-mail: haertel{at}stanford.edu
