Assessment: Social Practice and Social Product (Hardcover)

Assessment has become one of the most significant areas of interest in educational policy development, as well as the focus of complex political, economic and cultural expectations for change. Increasingly, governments world-wide have become aware that curricula and teachers can be indirectly controlled through programmes of assessment. Opponents of centralised systems of mass assessment claim they are ill-suited to the diverse and changing needs of learners and users of assessment.
In Assessment the UK and US writers take the reader beyond the obvious functions of assessment, and focus upon the roles it performs in the social structuring of society. They examine the myths and assumptions that underpin assessment and testing and draw attention to its cultural context.
The book provides a wide-ranging, structured and accessible approach to the study of socio-cultural origins and impacts of assessment.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203465849

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2000
First published:	2000
Editors:	Ann Filer
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-22782-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > Examinations & assessment
LSN:	0-415-22782-8
Barcode:	9780415227827

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