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The Public Understanding of Assessment (Hardcover)
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Assessment of educational achievement, whether by traditional
examinations or by teachers in schools, attracts considerable
public interest, particularly when it is associated with 'high
stakes' outcomes such as university entry or selection for
employment. When the individual's results do not chime with their
or their teachers' expectations, doubts creep in about the process
of assessment that has arrived at this result. However, educational
assessment is made up of many layers of complexity, which are not
always clear to the general public, including teachers, students,
and parents, and which are not easily understood outside of the
expert assessment community. These layers may be organized in
highly co-dependent relationships that include reliability,
validity, human judgment, and errors, and the uses and
interpretations of the various types of assessment. No-one could
reasonably argue that the principles and complexities of
educational assessment should be core learning in public education,
but there is a growing realization that trust in the UK assessment
system is under some threat as the media and others sensationalize
or politicize any problems that arise each year. This book offers
the first comprehensive overview of how the general public is
considered to perceive and understand a wide variety of aspects of
educational assessment, and how this understanding may be improved.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Oxford
Review of Education.
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