Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment

	Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment
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	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.

	Date Published: 2024-05-29 09:36:05
	Identifier: oapen-20.500.12657-57794
	Item Size: 83677931
	Language: English
	Media Type: texts

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