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Assessment

Social Practice and Social Product

Assessment
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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.
RoutledgeFalmer; February 2000
236 pages; ISBN 9780203465844
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