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Preferred term
historical development of testing
Definition
- Testing has been put to many purposes, including identifying job candidates, assessing students for remediation, evaluating students' intelligence, allocating educational opportunities, monitoring achievement, and improving education systems. In education, tests are samples of knowledge, skill, or other qualities that are used to make inferences about the students, teachers, demographic groups, schools, or education systems. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; Testing, Historical Development of]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/historical_development_of_testing
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