Full Description
Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment draws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, including:
media responses and constructions such as league tables of performance
pressures within school systems and on schools
effects on the work and identities of principals and teachers
and impacts on the experience of schooling for many young people, including those least advantaged.
Using Australia as the case site for global concerns regarding national testing, this book will be an invaluable companion for education researchers, teacher educators, teacher education students and teachers globally.
Contents
National testing from an Australian perspective
Bob Lingard, Greg Thompson and Sam Sellar
What national testing data can tell us
Margaret Wu
The Performative Politics of NAPLAN and MySchool
Radhika Gorur
Questioning the validity of the multiple uses of NAPLAN data
Val Klenowski
Local experiences, global similarities: Teacher perceptions of the impacts of national testing
Greg Thompson
NAPLAN and student wellbeing: teacher perceptions of the impact of NAPLAN on students
Suzanne Rice, Nicky Dulfer, John Polesel and Clare O'Hanlon
Literacy leadership and accountability: Holding onto ethics in ways that count
Lyn Kerkham and Barbara Comber
Contesting and 'capitalising' on NAPLAN
Ian Hardy
Understanding the politics of categories in reporting national test results
Sue Creagh
Students "at risk" and NAPLAN: the "collateral damage"
J. Joy Cumming, Claire M. Wyatt-Smith and Peta Colbert
NAPLAN, achievement 'gaps' and embedding Indigenous perspectives in schooling: Disrupting the 'decolonial option'
Greg Vass and Gordon Chalmers
Disadvantaged students' voices on national testing: The submersion of NAPLAN's formative potential
J. Joy Cumming, Claire M. Wyatt-Smith and Peta Colbert
Exploring children's lived experiences of NAPLAN
Angelique Howell
NAPLAN and the 'problem frame': Exploring representations of NAPLAN in the print media, 2010-2013
Nicole Mockler
Negotiating with the neighbours: Balancing different accountabilities across a cluster of regional schools
Marie Brennan, Lew Zipin, Sam Sellar
The life of data: Evolving national testing
Greg Thompson, Sam Sellar and Bob Lingard
