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Assessment : social practice and social product

Title
  1. Assessment : social practice and social product / edited by Ann Filer.
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  1. London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2000.

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Additional authors
  1. Filer, Ann.
Description
  1. xiii, 221 pages; 25 cm
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Educational tests and measurements > Social aspects > United States
  2. Educational tests and measurements > Social aspects > Great Britain
  3. Examinations > Social aspects > United States
  4. Examinations > Social aspects > Great Britain
  5. Educational equalization > United States
  6. Educational equalization > Great Britain
  7. Tests et mesures en éducation > Aspect social > États-Unis
  8. Tests et mesures en éducation > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne
  9. Examens > Aspect social > États-Unis
  10. Examens > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne
  11. Démocratisation de l'enseignement > États-Unis
  12. Démocratisation de l'enseignement > Grande-Bretagne
  13. Educational equalization
  14. Educational tests and measurements > Social aspects
  15. Examinations > Social aspects
  16. Pädagogische Soziologie
  17. Schulleistungsmessung
  18. Schultest
  19. Great Britain
  20. United States
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.