Assessment in practice : explorations in identity, culture, policy and inclusion / Alicia Curtin, Kevin Cahill, Kathy Hall, Dan O'Sullivan and Kamil Özerk.

"Assessment in Practice explores timely and important questions in relation to assessment. By examining the relationship between identity, culture, policy and inclusion, the book investigates the conflicted and fractured battleground of assessment, and challenges current and practiced understan...

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Main Authors: Curtin, Alicia (Author), Cahill, Kevin, 1975- (Author), Hall, Kathy, 1952- (Author), O'Sullivan, Dan (Author), Øzerk, Kamil (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Current debates in educational psychology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: examining the social order of assessment: towards a sociocultural understanding of assessment policy and practice
  • Setting the boundaries in assessment: intersections of identity and value in personal spaces
  • Assessment as public practice: international aspects of assessment and accountability
  • Cultural scripts of assessment for practice: predictability, outcomes and life chances
  • Junior cycle reform: the negotiated nature of assessment policy in Ireland
  • Perspectives on social justice and assessment: testing, social class and opportunity to learn
  • The assessment of pupils with special educational needs: giving effect to the principles of inclusivity in practice
  • Conclusion: disrupting normative thinking on assessment: new worlds and words for assessment.