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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824888503321

Autore

Filer Ann

Titolo

The social world of pupil assessment : processes and contexts of primary schooling / / Ann Filer and Andrew Pollard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

1-4411-8877-0

9786612452451

1-282-45245-2

1-281-29808-5

9786611298081

1-84714-396-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Social World

Disciplina

372

Soggetti

Education, Primary - Social aspects - Great Britain

Educational evaluation - Social aspects - Great Britain

School children - Great Britain - Social conditions

School children - Rating of - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Setting the Scene; Part Two: The Social World of Assessment; Part Three: Elaborating; Part Four: Reflecting; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Defining Assessment in the widest possible way, ann Filer and Andrew Pollard have produced the most comprehensive ethnographic study of assessment ever attempted. Their case studies cover all of the most important questions concerning assessment. The findings, which are both profound and unsettling, have major implications for educational practice and policy - particularly on how supposedly objective assessment processes depend on their context and are vulnerable to both bias and distortion. In this colorful and reliable work, Filer and Pollard have provided the definitive study of assessment