Richard O Phelps

Defending Standardized Testing

Defending Standardized Testing

Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing

Education Indicators: An International Perspective

Education In States And Nations: Indicators Comparing U.s. States With Other Industrialized Countries In 1991

Digger Phelps and Notre Dame Basketball

A Coach's World

Basketball for Dummies

Richard Phelps (bellfounder)

Richard Phelps (c. 16701738) was born in Avebury, Wiltshire, England. :240 :6 Phelps was a bell-founder, or a maker of bells, primarily for churches. He was...

Richard Phelps (pentathlete)

Richard Phelps (born 19 April 1961) is a British former modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1984, 1988, 1992 and the 1996 Summer Olympics. He won a...

Digger Phelps and Notre Dame basketball

Forget the title and byline. Essentially, this deadly serious exercise in sportspeak is a third-person review of the Phelps-coached Notre Dame basketball team's 197980 season, which, by the ultracompetitive standards of big-time collegiate athletics, was only a modest success. The club did compile a...

Basketball For Dummies

Created especially for the Australian customer!Your ticket to playing, coaching and following basketballFrom the basics to the latest tips on playing, coaching, drills and techniques, this friendly reference offers you expert advice on the plays, strategies and moves on and off the court. Basketball...

Standardized Testing Primer

The Standardized Testing Primer provides non-specialists with a thorough overview of this controversial and complicated topic. It eschews the statistical details of scaling, scoring, and measurement that are widely available in textbooks and at testing organization Web sites, and instead describes s...

Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing

In response to public demand, federal legislation now requires testing of most students in the United States in reading and mathematics in grades three through eight. Many educators, parents, and policymakers who have paid little attention to testing policy issues in the past need to have better in...

Defending Standardized Testing

The education reform movement of the past two decades has focused on raising academic standards. Some standards advocates attach a testing mechanism to gauge the extent to which high standards are actually accomplished, whereas some critics accuse the push for standards and testing of impeding refor...

Correcting Fallacies about Educational and Psychological Testing

Standardized testing is used for diagnosis, selection, and achievement measurement by individuals in many fields, including psychology, education, employment, and professional credentialing. Its benefits are numerous, substantial, and scientifically proven. However, these benefits are not well artic...

Basketball For Dummies

The easy way to get the ins, outs, and intrigue on this beloved sportThe National Basketball Association (NBA), with 30 teams and an average attendance of more than 17,000 spectators per game, is the richest and most popular basketball league — and arguably the most viewed American sport — in the wo...

A coach's world

A look at big time basketball by Notre Dame's young coach