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Assessment : social practice and social product
- Title
- Assessment : social practice and social product / edited by Ann Filer.
- Publication
- London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Filer, Ann.
- Description
- xiii, 221 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- This text goes beyond the obvious functions of assessment, and focuses upon the roles it performs in the social structuring of society. It examines the myths and assumptions that underpin assessment and testing by drawing attention to cultural context.
- Subject
- Educational tests and measurements > Social aspects > United States
- Educational tests and measurements > Social aspects > Great Britain
- Examinations > Social aspects > United States
- Examinations > Social aspects > Great Britain
- Educational equalization > United States
- Educational equalization > Great Britain
- Tests et mesures en éducation > Aspect social > États-Unis
- Tests et mesures en éducation > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne
- Examens > Aspect social > États-Unis
- Examens > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne
- Démocratisation de l'enseignement > États-Unis
- Démocratisation de l'enseignement > Grande-Bretagne
- Educational equalization
- Educational tests and measurements > Social aspects
- Examinations > Social aspects
- Pädagogische Soziologie
- Schulleistungsmessung
- Schultest
- Great Britain
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Socio-historical and cultural contexts of assessment policy. The changing discourse of assessment policy: the case of English primary education / Patricia Broadfoot and Andrew Pollard -- Choosing not to know: how assessment policies and practices obscure the education of language minority students / Mark Lacelle-Peterson -- Technologies of testing. Testing technology: the need for oversight / George F. Madaus and Cathy Horn -- How tests create what they are intended to measure / F. Allan Hanson -- Classroom contexts of assessment. Constructing the 'legitimate' goal of a 'realistic' maths item: a comparison of 10-11 and 13-14 year-olds / Barry Cooper and Máiréad Dunne -- Questioning the three bears: the social construction of classroom assessment / John Pryor and Harry Torrance -- Assessment as lived experience beyond the classroom. Assessment and parents' strategic action / Ann Filer and Andrew Pollard -- Making the graduate: perspectives on student experience of assessment in higher education / David James -- Postmodern perspectives and implications for assessment practice. Postmodernism and educational assessment / Harry Torrance -- Cultural politics, the science of assessment and democratic renewal of public education / Harold Berlak.
- ISBN
- 0415227828
- 9780415227827
- 0415227836
- 9780415227834
- 0203465849
- 9780203465844
- LCCN
- 99055450
- OCLC
- ocm42733666
- 42733666
- SCSB-8904919
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library