'Next Thing You Know, Her Hair Turned Green': Absurdity and Uncertainty in High-Stakes Teacher Test Space

Autor/inn/en	Petchauer, Emery; Baker-Doyle, Kira J.
Titel	'Next Thing You Know, Her Hair Turned Green': Absurdity and Uncertainty in High-Stakes Teacher Test Space
Quelle	In: Critical Studies in Education, 60 (2019) 1, S.19-36 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8487
DOI	10.1080/17508487.2016.1234496
Schlagwörter	High Stakes Tests; Educational Testing; Licensing Examinations (Professions); Teacher Education Programs; Preservice Teachers; Affordances; Educational Environment; School Space + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Schulraum
Abstract	This article explores what happens behind the closed doors and in the 'black box' of high-stakes educational testing. Our specific concern is licensure exams that are often gatekeepers into teacher education programs and the profession. Leveraging the spatial turn across critical social theory and other disciplines, we conceptualize the test space of these exams in order to account for the powerful reach that test companies have into teacher education and the 'ideal' restrictive space that test takers navigate. Against this conceptual background, we share findings from a larger qualitative study to illustrate how test takers 'practice' test space into something more manageable and familiar by leveraging various affordances presented to them. Overall, our study accounts for the spatial dimension of high-stakes educational tests and initiates productive ways to begin thinking about the structure and agency of these spaces. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01