Talk:Standardized testing
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This should be called standardized testing as public policy or something like that, shouldn't it? There's little about standardized testing per se, here. --Larry Sanger
- Yes. Vicki Rosenzweig
Moved the public policy stuff--it now gets a "see also" on this page--and wrote a quick-and-dirty piece on this subject. Please look at it for bias and gaps.
Looks like a great improvement, and a good example of why Wikipedia works (a lot of the time). :-) --Larry Sanger
If there are no objections, I'm going to put a merge tag on this article. There's another article called Standardized test and I don't think they're both necessary. My own opinion is that this article is more descriptive, but I don't know enough about the subject to feel right doing it myself.
Rhesusmanrhesusman 17:31 UTC 17 April 2005
- I agree they need to be merged. The question is which name should the resulting article have? The naming conventions don't seem to give any preference of a gerund form over a noun or vice versa. The subject "Test" should technically be about the test itself and "Testing" is technically about the application and use of the test, but I suppose either article could cover all the material to avoid overlap. Other factors include that this article has a much shorter edit history, possibly meaning that is the more favored name, but also possibly it is just a better connected article. Anyone have good experience from other articles to guide this decision? I'm willing to do the merge if we agree on which way to do it. - Taxman 13:39, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
- It looks like someone brought in the cleanup task force to work on this one, but I think the other one needs cleanup more. I wouldn't have a problem with the two articles being fixed so they do indeed talk about separate things, such as one talking about the tests themselves and the other talking about such testing as a public policy. I myself don't care which outcome is chosen, so long as we don't have duplicate articles.
Rhesusman 17:30 UTC 17 April 2005
Clean up task force in action
I have made start at this be adding 'Standardized test' to the bottom of 'Standardized testing', and included new headings with stubs for History of Standardized testing, Links and References. I have my suspicions that some of the text might be a copyvio for the following code - – - appears twice in it. I have never met this before in any editing work I have done and feel its been imported from an outside document. I do not know enough about the subject to do very much more, other than add the paragraph about the political impact of standardized testing in the UK. Apwoolrich 07:20, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)