Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment Richardson Mary
Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment Richardson Mary Reassessing educational assessment: how the way we talk about exams and grades exacerbates the problems of pressure, anxiety,…
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Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment Richardson Mary
Reassessing educational assessment: how the way we talk about exams and grades exacerbates the problems of pressure, anxiety, and expectation.Educational assessment is important. The idea that grades can accurately describe the aims and outcomes of education is both reductive and pervasive. Yet it is easy to feel that schooling and other phases of education are shaped entirely by certain assessments and that assessment is only about exam results.
It explains the roots and nature of assessment discourses and proposes a restructuring of the debate to rebuild public confidence. This book is about the stories we tell each other about educational assessment and how they impact public trust and confidence in educational assessment. It aims to challenge dominant assessment discourses and demands a more nuanced, informed debate about what happens in and beyond schools, and how this
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