FairTest

342 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 864-4810
FAX (617) 497-2224
Info@fairtest.org    

Fair Test provides info, assistance and advocacy on a range of testing relating issues. 

ETS Corporate Headquarters
Educational Testing Service
Rosedale Road
Princeton, NJ 08541 USA
(609) 921-9000
FAX: 609-734-5410

Contact the ETS headquarters about tests you are planning on taking or about tests you have already taken.  People with general questions should visit www.ets.org

Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It by Peter Sacks

Description: Standardized Minds dramatically shows how our unhealthy and enduring obsession with intelligence testing affects us all, from the day we enter kindergarten to the day we apply for that corporate job.  Focuses strongly on the correlation between wealth and high scores.  

The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools by Alfie Kohn. 

Description: Kohn's central message is that standardized tests are "not a force of nature but a force of politics and political decisions can be questioned, challenged, and ultimately reversed." It presents a case against standardized testing and offers alternative suggestions for assessment. 

Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing
by Richard P. Phelps, Herbert J. Walberg

Description: This work is written in defense of educational testing. It describes the debate, the players, their interests, and their positions. It explains and refutes many of the common criticisms of testing. It describes testing opponents' strategies, through case studies of Texas and the SAT.

Test Taking Strategies & Study Skills for the Utterly Confused by Laurie Rozakis, Phds

Rather than having a different prep book for every test, this book gives general strategies for fighting test stress, studies effectively, etc to be used for any test.