| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Educational tests and measurements -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Educational tests and measurements -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Educational tests and measurements -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain. |
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Educational tests and measurements. |
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Examinations -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Examinations -- Social aspects. |
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Examinations. |
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Examinations -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Educational equalization -- United States.
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Educational equalization. |
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Educational equalization -- Great Britain.
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| Indexed Term |
Multi-User. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Filer, Ann.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Assessment. London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2000 0415227828 (DLC) 99055450 (OCoLC)42733666 |
| ISBN |
0585448019 (electronic book) |
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9780585448015 (electronic book) |
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0203465849 (electronic book) |
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9780203465844 (electronic book) |
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9786610157440 |
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6610157448 |
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0415227828 (Cloth) |
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0415227836 (Paper) |
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