Testing testing

Description:

This book is about how our addiction to testing influences both society and ourselves as socially defined persons. The analysis focuses on tests of people, particularly tests in schools, intelligence tests, vocational interest tests, lie detection, integrity tests, and drug tests. Diagnostic psychiatric tests and medical tests are included only tangentially. --From publisher's description.

subjects: Examinations,  Social control,  Social aspects of Self-perception,  United States,  Self-perception,  Psychological aspects of Examinations,  Psychological aspects,  Social aspects of Examinations,  History,  Sociology,  Social aspects,  Prüfung,  Psychologie,  Psychologische Diagnostik,  Soziale Wirklichkeit,  Tests,  Sociale aspecten,  Sociale controle,  Zelfbeeld,  Examens,  Aspect psychologique,  Contrôle social,  Aspect social,  Histoire,  Perception de soi

Places: United States