Michelle Tenam-Zemach, Daniel R Conn, Paul T Parkison

Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex

Understanding How Testing Perpetuates Inequity and Injustice in America

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a critique of how the assessment industry and standardized testing adversely impact students, teachers, and society. The CoVid-19 pandemic, society's racial unrest, and anti-testing movements have aligned to underscore the need to examine systemic oppression and the impact it has on society through our education system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780367407872
• ISBN-10: 0367407876
• Artikelnr.: 60597851

Autorenporträt

Michelle Tenam-Zemach is the Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Nova Southeastern University. Daniel R. Conn is the Associate Professor of Teacher Education, Master of Education Program Director at Minot State University. Paul T. Parkison is Professor and Chair of Teaching, Learning & Curriculum in the College of Education & Human Services at University of North Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Because We Know There is No Excuse for Doing Nothing
Introduction: The Upside Down
1. Introducing the Assessment Industrial Complex: How This Book Came to Be
2.Testing and Society: How We Got to Where We Are
3. Strange Bedfellows: How Test-Driven Accountability Became Common Sense
4. Testing for Profit: Billionaire Boys' Club, EdReformers and All Matter of Money
5. Students, Teachers, and Testing: An Existential Crisis in the Making
6.A Path to Hope and Change: The Time is Now