Assessment
Subtitle: social practice and social product
By: edited by Ann Filer.
Contributors: Filer, Ann.
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Choosing not to know: how assessment policies and practices obscure the education of language minority students / Mark Lacelle-Peterson; title: Technologies of testing. Testing technology: the need for oversight / George F. Madaus and Cathy Horn; title: How tests create what they are intended to measure / F. Allan Hanson; title: 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; title: Questioning the three bears: the social construction of classroom assessment / John Pryor and Harry Torrance; title: Assessment as lived experience beyond the classroom. Assessment and parents' strategic action / Ann Filer and Andrew Pollard; title: Making the graduate: perspectives on student experience of assessment in higher education / David James; title: Postmodern perspectives and implications for assessment practice. Postmodernism and educational assessment / Harry Torrance; title: Cultural politics, the science of assessment and democratic renewal of public education / Harold Berlak.