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Testing Times: The Uses and Abuses of Assessment

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.5 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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Assessment dominates our lives but its good intentions often produce negative consequences. An example that is central to this book is how current forms of assessment encourage shallow 'for-the-test' learning. It is true to say that as the volume of assessment increases, confidence in what it represents is diminishing. This book seeks to reclaim assessment as a constructive activity which can encourage deeper learning. To do this the purpose, and fitness-for-purpose, of assessments have to be clear.

Gordon Stobart critically examines five issues that currently have high-profile status:

  • intelligence testing
  • learning skills
  • accountability
  • the 'diploma disease'
  • formative assessment

Stobart explains that these form the basis for the argument that we must generate assessments which, in turn, encourage deep and lifelong learning.

This book raises controversial questions about current uses of assessment and provides a framework for understanding them. It will be of great interest to teaching professionals involved in further study, and to academics and researchers in the field.

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  • Author

    Gordon Stobart (institute Of Education, University Of London, Uk)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    April 2008

  • Weight

    341g

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780415404754

  • ISBN-10

    0415404754

  • Eden Code

    5592557

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