A Measure of Failure: The Political Origins of Standardized Testing

Autor/in	Garrison, Mark J.
Titel	A Measure of Failure: The Political Origins of Standardized Testing
Quelle	(2009), (152 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-4384-2777-5
Schlagwörter	Testing; Standardized Tests; Intelligence Tests; Social Values; Public Education; Politics of Education; Measurement Techniques; Educational Assessment; Educational History; Standards; Social Stratification; Academic Achievement; Achievement Tests; Academic Ability; Problems; Social Justice; Psychometrics; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Testdurchführung; Testen; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Sozialer Wert; Öffentliche Erziehung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Messtechnik; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Standard; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Schulleistung; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Problemsituation; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Politics of education; Politikfeldanalyse
Abstract	How did standardized tests become the measure of performance in our public schools? In this compelling work, Mark J. Garrison 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. Contents of this book include: (1) A Measure of Failure; (2) The Nature and Function of Standards; (3) Academic Achievement and Ability as Forms of Vertical Classification; (4) Standardized Tests as Markers of Social Value; (5) The Rise of Public Education: The Impulse to Mark Achievement and Ability; (6) Achievement Testing: The Case of Horace Mann; (7) Intelligence Testing: The Case of Alfred Binet; (8) Political Origins of Testing; and (9) The Failure of Testing. Notes, references, and an index are also included. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10