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Author RICHARDSON, MARY.

Title Rebuilding public confidence in educational assessment [electronic resource].

Imprint [S.l.] : UCL PRESS, 2022.

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Contents Talking about education and assessment: understanding discourse -- Public understanding of assessment -- Assessment and the value of education -- Student experiences of assessment -- Depicting assessment in public places -- Introducing assessment literacy -- A new road map for assessment?
Summary Educational assessment is important. But in the twenty-first century it is easy to feel that schooling and other phases of education are shaped entirely by certain assessments, and that assessment is only about exam results. The idea that test grades can accurately describe the aims and outcomes of education is unfair and reductive. Yet it is a pervasive and persuasive discourse. This book is about such discourses - the stories we tell each other - and how they impact public trust and confidence in educational assessment. It explains the roots and nature of assessment discourses, and proposes a restructuring of the debates in order to rebuild public confidence. It aims to challenge dominant assessment discourses and demands a more nuanced, informed debate about what happens in and beyond schools, and how this influences public thinking. Questioning the status quo needs buy-in from policymakers, teachers, parents and students, and from the broader public: from journalists, you, me, our friends and our children. Using examples from international settings to explore the nature of trust in assessment discourses, Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment shows how these discourses can be reframed so that all aspects of the assessment system - policymaking, school planning, home practice with students - can be undertaken with confidence.
Subject Educational tests and measurements.
Educational tests and measurements -- Social aspects.
Educational Measurement
Tests et mesures en éducation.
Tests et mesures en éducation -- Aspect social.
Educational tests and measurements
Educational tests and measurements -- Social aspects
Other Form: Print version: 9781787357273
Print version: 1787357260 9781787357266 1787357252 9781787357259 (OCoLC)1302104539
ISBN 9781787357242 (electronic bk.)
1787357244 (electronic bk.)
1787357260
9781787357266
1787357252
9781787357259
9781787357273 (ePub ebook)
1787357279
9781787357280 (Kindle ebook)
1787357287
Standard No. UKMGB 020520506
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