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.
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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.
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Educational equalization-- Great Britain.
Educational equalization-- United States.
Educational tests and measurements-- Social aspects-- Great Britain.
Educational tests and measurements-- Social aspects-- United States.
Examinations-- Social aspects-- Great Britain.
Examinations-- Social aspects-- United States.
EDUCATION-- Evaluation.
EDUCATION-- Testing & Measurement.
Educational equalization.
Educational tests and measurements-- Social aspects.