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Autor/in | Au, Wayne |
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Titel | Hiding behind High-Stakes Testing: Meritocracy, Objectivity and Inequality in U.S. Education |
Quelle | In: International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 12 (2013) 2, S.7-20 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1443-1475 |
Schlagwörter | High Stakes Tests; Equal Education; Intelligence Quotient; Intelligence Tests; Educational History; Race; Social Class; Standardized Tests; Educational Policy; Ideology; Racial Differences; Social Differences; Federal Legislation; Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale |
Abstract | This paper analyses how high-stakes, standardised testing became the policy tool in the U.S. that it is today and discusses its role in advancing an ideology of meritocracy that fundamentally masks structural inequalities related to race and economic class. This paper first traces the early history of high-stakes testing within the U.S. context, focusing on its deep-rooted connections with eugenics and IQ testing in schools. It then turns to the more recent history of high-stakes testing, highlighting the ways that race and class inequality, as well as the ideology of meritocracy, manifest in the United States today as part of a legacy of inequality. (As Provided). |
Anmerkungen | Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society. ANZCIES Secretariat, Curtin University, Box U1987, Perth, WA Australia. Tel: +61-8-9266-7106; Fax: +61-8-9266-3222; e-mail: editor@iejcomparative.org; Web site: http://openjournals.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/IEJ |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2017/4/10 |