Assessment : social practice and social product

Assessment : social practice and social product / edited by Ann Filer.

In Assessment the writers take the reader beyond the obvious function of assessment and focus upon the roles it performs in the social structuring of society.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Filer, Ann
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2000.
Subjects:
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.
EDUCATION > Evaluation.
STUDY AIDS > Tests.
EDUCATION > Testing & Measurement.
Educational equalization
Educational tests and measurements > Social aspects
Examinations > Social aspects
Great Britain
United States
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Table of 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.

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