The book "Measurement and Assessment in Education (2nd Edition)
" goes into detail on the process of nationally standardized testing in the USA. One amusing sidebar is on the "Lake Wobegon effect", where a large number of US schools systematically gamed the testing system. The term is named after Garrison Keillor's fictional town of Lake Wobegon, where "... all the children are above average.".
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