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Using Standards and High-Stakes Testing for Students - Exploiting Power with Critical Pedagogy (Paperback, New edition)
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Using Standards and High-Stakes Testing for Students - Exploiting Power with Critical Pedagogy (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Counterpoints, 425
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This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies
Association) Critics Choice Award 2012. This book overturns the
typical conception of standards, empowering educators by providing
concrete examples of how top-down models of assessment can be
embraced and used in ways that are consistent with critical
pedagogies. Although standards, as broad frameworks for setting
learning targets, are not necessarily problematic, when they are
operationalized as high-stakes assessments, test-based pedagogies
emerge and frequently dominate the curriculum, leaving little room
for critical pedagogies. In addition, critics maintain that
high-stakes assessments perpetuate current class structures by
maintaining skill gaps and controlling ideology, particularly
beliefs in individualism, meritocracy, and what counts as
knowledge. This book offers readers a deepened awareness of how
educators can alleviate the effects of standardization, especially
for students in poor and working-class communities. As teachers
negotiate their roles in this time of increasing regulation and
standardization, it is essential to maintain and model a critical
stance toward curriculum and instruction. Educators know why this
approach is vital: This book illustrates how to make it happen.
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