Education by numbers. The tyranny of testing.

Autor/in	Mansell, Warwick
Titel	Education by numbers. The tyranny of testing.
Quelle	London: Politico's (2007), XVII, 270 S.Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-84275-199-2
Schlagwörter	Reliabilität; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungspolitik; Schule; Schulsystem; Lehrer; Schüler; Täuschung; Leistungsbeurteilung; Schülerleistung; Internationaler Vergleich; Belastung; Kritik; Leistungsmessung; Rechenschaftslegung; Vorbereitung; Labour Party; Großbritannien
Abstract	Britain's children are now the world's most tested pupils. They face major assessments at every stage of ther schooling... With ministers then using the results to hold schools to account as never before for their pupils' progress, the argument is that standards must rise. ... However well intentioned this sounds, the reality in the classroom is very different, as teachers are forced to 'teach to the test' - adopt shortcuts that will improve statistics, whether or not they are in pupils' long-term interests. Many children are made anxious about test performance form an early age. And test preparation dominates the curriculum to the detriment of non-tested subjects, in a system where a school's reputation, its teachers' pay and even its very survival depend on pupils' performance in the exam hall. This obsession with testing may be good for statisticians, but it is not good for pupils, for teachers, for parents, for universities or for business. It does not produce a rounded child, and standards have failed to rise as hoped. [In this book the author] scrutinises the whole testing regime in detail and exposes the truth of exam-driven schooling, which is corrupting [the British] education system and leaving a generation of pupils less willing and able to think for themselves. He then offers a remedy that would see a balanced education returning to [British] classrooms. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2007/4