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Objectifying Measures

Name: Objectifying Measures
Brand: Temple University Press,U.S.
SKU: 9781592139064
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The Dominance of High-Stakes Testing and the Politics of Schooling

Autor: Amanda Walker Johnson

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Temple University Press,U.S.

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In the past twenty years, the number of educational tests with high-stakes consequences - such as pr...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Amanda Walker Johnson

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2009

strony

224

EAN

9781592139064

ISBN

159213906X

Enbook ID

05087527

Wydawca

Temple University Press,U.S.

Waga

259

Wymiary

140 x 210 x 15

Pełny opis

In the past twenty years, the number of educational tests with high-stakes consequences - such as promotion to the next grade level or graduating from high school - has increased. At the same time, the difficulty of the tests has also increased. In Texas, a Latina state legislator introduced and lobbied for a bill that would take such factors as teacher recommendations, portfolios of student work, and grades into account for the students - usually students of colour - who failed such tests. The bill was defeated. Using several types of ethnographic study (personal interviews, observations of the Legislature in action, news broadcasts, public documents from the Legislature and Texas Education Agency), Amanda Walker Johnson observed the struggle for the bill's passage. Through recounting this experience, "Objectifying Measures" explores the relationship between the cultural production of scientific knowledge (of statistics in particular) and the often intuitive resistance to objectification of those adversely affected by the power of policies underwritten as 'scientific'.