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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450368103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-58699-X

0-203-46584-9

0-585-44801-9

1-280-15744-5

9786610157440

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FilerAnn

Disciplina

371.26/0973

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Socio-Historical and Cultural Contexts of Assessment Policy: Editor's Introduction; The Changing Discourse of Assessment Policy: The Case of English Primary Education; Choosing Not to Know: How Assessment Policies and Practices Obscure the Education of Language Minority Students; Technologies of Testing: Editor's Introduction; Testing Technology: The Need for Oversight; How Tests Create What They are Intended to Measure; Classroom Contexts of Assessment: Editor's Introduction

Constructing the 'Legitimate' Goal of a 'Realistic' Maths Item: A Comparison of 10  11 and 13  14 year-oldsQuestioning the Three Bears: The Social Construction of Classroom Assessment; Assessment as Lived Experience Beyond the Classroom: Editor's Introduction;



Assessment and Parents' Strategic Action; Making the Graduate: Perspectives on Student Experience of Assessment in Higher Education; Postmodern Perspectives and Implications for As

Sommario/riassunto

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.