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Autor/in | Garrison, Mark J. |
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Titel | A measure of failure. The political origins of standardized testing. |
Quelle | Albany, NY: State Univ. of New York Press (2009), XII, 140 S. |
Beigaben | Literatur- und URL-Angaben S. 123-131 |
Zusatzinformation | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Monographie |
ISBN | 1-4384-2778-6; 978-1-4384-2778-2 |
Schlagwörter | Demokratische Bildung; Bildungsforschung; Evaluation; Gesellschaft; Sozialforschung; Autorität; Intelligenzquotient; Intelligenztest; Psychometrie; Schulreform; Schule; Öffentliche Schule; Schüler; Leistungsbeurteilung; Schülerleistung; Sozialgeschichte; Ungleichheit; Politisches Verhalten; Soziale Schicht; Staat; Laizismus; Philosophie; Standard; Theorie; Binet, Alfred; Europa; Frankreich; Nordamerika; USA |
Abstract | How did standardized tests become the measure of performance in our public schools? In this compelling work, [the author] attempts to answer this question by analyzing the development of standardized testing, from the days of Horace Mann and Alfred Binet to the current scene. Approaching the issue from a sociohistorical perspective, the author demonstrates the ways standardized testing has been used to serve the interests of the governing class by attaching a performance-based value to people and upholding inequality in American society. The book also discusses the implications that a restructuring of standardized testing would have on the future of education, specifically what it could do to eliminate the measure of individual worth based on performance. (DIPF/Orig.). |
Erfasst von | DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main |
Update | 2010/3 |