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The standardized educational or psychological tests, that are widely used to aid in selecting, assigning, or promoting students,
The standardized educational or psychological tests, that are widely used to aid in selecting, assigning, or promoting students,
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2013-06-10
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问题
The standardized educational or psychological tests, that are widely used to aid in selecting, assigning, or promoting students, employees, and military personnel have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in Congress. The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests; critics divert attention from the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent users. The tests themselves are merely tools, with characteristics that can be measured with reasonable precision under specified conditions. Whether the results will be valuable, meaningless, or even misleading depends partly upon the tool itself but largely upon the user.
All informed predictions of future performance are based upon some knowledge of relevant past performance. How well the predictions will be validated by later performance depends upon the amount, reliability, and appropriateness of the information used and on the skill and Wisdom with which it is interpreted. Anyone who keeps careful score knows that the information available is always incomplete and that the predictions are always subject to error.
Standardized tests should be considered in this context. They provide a quick, objective method of getting some kinds of information about what a person has learned, the skills he has developed, or the kind of person he is. The information so obtained has, qualitatively, the same advantages and shortcomings as other kinds of information. Whether to use tests, other kinds of information, or both in a particular situation depends, therefore, upon the empirical evidence concerning comparative validity, and upon such factors as cost and availability.
In general, the tests work most effectively when the traits or qualities to be measured can be most precisely defined (for example, ability to do well in a particular course of training program) and least effectively when what is to be measured or predicted cannot be well defined (for example, personality or creativity). Properly used, they provide a rapid means of getting comparable information about many people. Sometimes they identify students whose high potential has not been previously recognized, but there are many things they do not do. For example, they don’t compensate for gross social inequality, and thus don’t tell how able an underprivileged younger might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.
选项
A、Attacking standardized tests.
B、Don’t blame the test—blame the user.
C、Standardized tests and their wide applications.
D、The standardized test—a useful means of assessment.
答案
B
解析
全文主旨题。本题问;本文的中心思想是什么?本文是用演绎法写的,所以全文主旨在第1段中。第l段中作者指出,把标准化考试作为抨击目标是错误的。在段落结尾句中明确指出:"测试成绩是否有价值、有意义或者甚至是误导的,部分取决于工具本身,但主要取决于使用测试的人"。本句是全文主题句,可见,答案选项符合此意。
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考研英语一
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