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Author | : David Gillborn |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 1999-12-16 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0335230954 |
"This research should make us extremely sceptical that the constant search for 'higher standards' and for ever-increasing achievement scores can do much more than put in place seemingly neutral devices for restratification." - Michael W Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison Recent educational reforms have raised standards of achievement but have also resulted in growing inequalities based on 'race' and social class. School-by-school 'league tables' play a central role in the reforms. These have created an A-to-C economy where schools and teachers are judged on the proportion of students attaining five or more grades at levels A-to-C. To satisfy these demands schools are embracing new and ever more selective attempts to identify 'ability'. Their assumptions and practices embody a new IQism: a simple , narrow and regressive ideology of intelligence that labels working class and minority students as likely failures and justifies rationing provision to support those (often white, middle class boys) already marked for success. This book reports detailed research in two secondary schools showing the real costs of reform in terms of the pressures on teachers and the rationing of educational opportunity. It will be important reading for any teacher, researcher or policymaker with an interest in equality in education.
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Total Pages | : 916 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Cooper, Barry |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1999-12-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0335203167 |
'this work is highly relevant to the proliferation of accountability measures worldwide' James Scheurich and Douglas Foley In many countries, the lives of teachers and children are increasingly dominated by programmes of national testing of mathematics and other subjects. In England, the majority of the items in such tests have set mathematical tasks in every day situations such as 'shopping'. This requires children to make decisions about whether to use or not their own every day knowledge and experience in their problem-solving. Some children are likely to have a better 'feel for this game' than others. Assessing Children's Mathematical Knowledge draws on the analysis of national curriculum test data from more than 600 children of 10-11 and 13-14 years of age, as well as in-depth interviews with 250 of these as they attempt to solve test problems, in order to explore the nature of the difficulties children experience with 'realistic' items. The book shows, by comparing test and interview data, that many children, as a consequence of their confusion over the requirements of 'realistic' test items, fail in tests to demonstrate mathematical knowledge and understanding that they actually possess. The book also explores whether this problem of invalid measurement is equally spread across children from different social backgrounds, and across the sexes. The book will be of interest to academics and teachers studying for advanced degrees in mathematics education, sociology of education and educational assessment.
Author | : Carol Vincent |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780415296953 |
This collection will give readers interested in questions of social justice and education access to the work of some of the key contributors to the debate in the UK.
Author | : Sharon L. Nichols |
Publisher | : Harvard Education Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2007-03-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1612500803 |
Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system. For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate and provocative book provides a fresh perspective on the issue and powerful ammunition for opponents of high-stakes tests. Their analysis is grounded in the application of Campbell’s Law, which posits that the greater the social consequences associated with a quantitative indicator (such as test scores), the more likely it is that the indicator itself will become corrupted—and the more likely it is that the use of the indicator will corrupt the social processes it was intended to monitor. Nichols and Berliner illustrate both aspects of this “corruption,” showing how the pressures of high-stakes testing erode the validity of test scores and distort the integrity of the education system. Their analysis provides a coherent and comprehensive intellectual framework for the wide-ranging arguments against high-stakes testing, while putting a compelling human face on the data marshalled in support of those arguments.
Author | : Bob Lingard |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1317333683 |
Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment draws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, including: media responses and constructions such as league tables of performance pressures within school systems and on schools effects on the work and identities of principals and teachers and impacts on the experience of schooling for many young people, including those least advantaged. Using Australia as the case site for global concerns regarding national testing, this book will be an invaluable companion for education researchers, teacher educators, teacher education students and teachers globally.
Author | : Anne West |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Academic achievement |
ISBN | : 9780415241328 |
An analysis of how recent research and theory about underachievement and disadvantage in schools can be applied in practice.
Author | : Gillborn , David |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1995-02-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0335190928 |
* How are 'race' and racism implicated in education policy and practice? * What does effective antiracism look like in practice? * How can teachers and school students be encouraged to think critically about their racialized assumptions and actions? In exploring these questions David Gillborn makes a vital contribution to the debate on 'race' and racism in education. He focuses on racism in the policy, research, theory and practice of education, and includes the first major study of antiracism at the level of whole-school management and classroom practice. The voices of teachers and school students bring the issues to life, and illustrate the daily problems of life in urban schools. This is a fascinating picture of the key matters facing managers, classroom teachers and their students as schools struggle to develop strong and workable approaches to anti-racist education. It is accompanied by a critical review of current debates and controversies concerning 'race', ethnicity and identity. Arguing for a critical return to the concept of 'race', Racism and Antiracism in Real Schools represents an important addition to the literature on the theory and practice of education in a racist society.
Author | : Stephen Gorard |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780415304221 |
Resulting from research conducted into choice in secondary education, this text provides context, analysis and discussion. In assessing the impact of choice policies not only upon the education system, but also upon wider society, it provides insight intoeconomic and social segregation.
Author | : Richard Teese |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 981 |
Release | : 2007-06-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1402059167 |
Inequality is a marked and persistent feature of education systems, both in the developed and the developing worlds. Major gaps in opportunity and in outcomes have become more critical than in the past, thanks to the knowledge economy and globalization. The pursuit of equity as a goal of public policy is examined in this book through a series of national case-studies. The book covers many different global contexts from the wealthiest to some of the poorest nations on earth. It therefore offers a broad range of different theoretical and methodological approaches, and brings together extensive international experience in equity policy.