A Measure of Failure: The Political Origins of Standardized Testing - Couverture rigide

Garrison, Mark J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1438427778 ISBN 13 : 9781438427775

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2009

Synopsis

Asks how and why standardized tests have become the ubiquitous standard by which educational achievement and intelligence are measured.

Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association

How did standardized tests become the measure of performance in our public schools? In this compelling work, Mark J. Garrison attempts to answer this question by analyzing the development of standardized testing, from the days of Horace Mann and Alfred Binet to the current scene. Approaching the issue from a sociohistorical perspective, the author demonstrates the ways standardized testing has been used to serve the interests of the governing class by attaching a performance-based value to people and upholding inequality in American society. The book also discusses the implications that a restructuring of standardized testing would have on the future of education, specifically what it could do to eliminate the measure of individual worth based on performance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark J. Garrison is Associate Professor and Director of Doctoral Programs at D'Youville College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438427778
• ISBN 13: 9781438427775
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 152
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• Personne responsable: non disponible