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一篇關于標準化教育測試及心理測試的辯論文章

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The standardized educational or psychological tests that are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, 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.
廣泛用來幫助選擇、分類、委派或者激勵學生、雇員和軍隊人員的標準化教育或心理測試是近來書刊、雜志、日報社甚至國會攻擊的目標。把標準化測試作為抨擊目標是錯誤的，因為在抨擊這類測試時，批評者未注意到其弊病在于那些對測試不甚了解或使用不當的使用者。這些測試本身只是工具，其特點能夠在特殊的條件下相當準確地被估量。測試結果是否有價值、有意義，或者甚至誤導人部分取決于工具本身，而大部分取決于使用者。