Reddit reviews Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry
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could you tell us more about that? i've done that kind of grading in a not-online setting and kind of liked it.
http://realwaystoearnmoneyonline.com/2011/04/pearson-scoring-at-home.html
https://survey.vovici.com/se.ashx?s=058F3B575DC152AE
http://monthlyreview.org/2010/12/01/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-test-scorer
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Grades-Misadventures-Standardized-Industry/dp/098170915X
http://workathomemoms.about.com/od/education/tp/Scoring-Jobs-Online.htm
They can be good indicators, but they shouldn't be the metric upon which your graduation is based.
When my wife was studying to be a teacher, she read two books about standardized testing, and one of them posed a very interesting question:
Consider, for a moment, what would happen if 100% of the students in a given district passed a standardized test. Would the school board say "Damn, we have some good teachers!"?
Nope. They'd say that the tests are too easy. So from the word "Go!" the tests are designed so that some people will fail them.
The books she read were:
Making the Grades (http://www.amazon.com/Making-Grades-Misadventures-Standardized-Industry/dp/098170915X)
What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? (http://www.amazon.com/Happened-Recess-Children-Struggling-Kindergarten/dp/0071383263)
The first deals with standardized testing from the grader's perspective, and the second from the teachers perspective (which is where the above bit came from).