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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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Editura: 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...

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Autor

Amanda Walker Johnson

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2009

Pagini

224

EAN

9781592139064

ISBN

159213906X

Enbook ID

05087527

Editura

Temple University Press,U.S.

Greutate

259

Dimensiuni

140 x 210 x 15

Descriere completă

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'.