
Richard P. Phelps
13 works on record
Biography
Richard P. Phelps received degrees from Washington, Indiana, and Harvard Universities and a Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He taught secondary school mathematics in Burkina Faso, West Africa; was the first Coordinator of the World Education Indicators Programme at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris; worked at the U.S. General Accounting Office, Westat, National Evaluation Systems, ETS, ACT, and Indiana's Education Department; and is editor and co-author of *Correcting Fallacies about Educational and Psychological Testing* (American Psychological Association, 2008/2009) and *Defending Standardized Testing* (Psychology Press, 2005); author of "The Malfunction of US Education Policy" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), *Standardized Testing Primer* (Peter Lang, 2007), and *Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing* (Transaction, 2003, 2005), lead author for several statistical compendia, and founder of the *Nonpartisan Education Review* ( https://nonpartisaneducation.org ). - See more at: https://richardphelps.net/
Works

Standardized Testing Primer
2007

Defending Standardized Testing
2005

Defending Standardized Testing (Applied Psychology)
2005

Kill the Messenger
2003

Correcting fallacies about educational and psychological testing

Education indicators

Education in states and nations

Malfunction of US Education Policy
State indicators in education 1997
State indicators in education 1997
1997
The Source of Lake Wobegon
The Source of Lake Wobegon
State Indicators in Education, 1997
State Indicators in Education, 1997
Drilling through the Core
Drilling through the Core
Features of occupational programs at the secondary and postsecondary education levels
Features of occupational programs at the secondary and postsecondary education levels