Good Education in an Age of Measurement

Good Education in an Age of Measurement

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  • Author: Gert J. J. Biesta
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317258665
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 160

The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good education has become so much more difficult to ask and shows why this has been detrimental for the quality of education and for the level of democratic control over education. He provides concrete suggestions for engaging with the question of purpose in education in a new, more precise and more encompassing way, with explicit attention to the ethical, political and democratic dimensions of education.


Measuring the Quality of Education

Measuring the Quality of Education

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  • Author: Paul Vedder
  • Publisher: CRC Press
  • ISBN: 1000110877
  • Category : Technology & Engineering
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176

This book contains a selection of articles on measuring the quality of education from the perspective of the importance of theories on education, changing effects of education, curriculum dependent or curriculum independent measurement, product and process evaluation, and global curricula.


Measuring Up in Education

Measuring Up in Education

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  • Author: Steven A. Stolz
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000692027
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 236

Cultures of measurement are often considered to dominate educational practices, to the degree that, as Biesta (2010) has identified in Good Education in an Age of Measurement we no longer measure what we value, but rather we have become conditioned to value what is measured. A clear example of this occurs when institutions and staff "teach to the test" by emphasising narrow conceptions of learning and of knowledge, simply because the consequences of high-stakes assessments have important implications regarding funding, resources, and even tenure. This collection explores, via various philosophical means, how valuable educational practices can occur within and beyond cultures of measurement. What seems to be required is for practitioners in education to regain their relationship to the overall purposes of education, such as the furthering of justice and democracy for both individual students and societies as a whole. Such a reconnection has the potential to re-humanise curricular experiences for students, which may have become dehumanised through particular cultures of measurement. It is argued that certain legitimate measures can advance justice and democracy, and so careful attention must be assigned to their validity and value. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.


Educational Measurement

Educational Measurement

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  • Author: William H. Angoff
  • Publisher: Washington : American Council on Education
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 796

In this second edition, twenty-three authorities, with the assistance of more than ninety collaborators, present chapters that deal with the recent developments under three broad headings: technological developments and their reverberations and implications; conceptual developments, and social and political issues impinging upon the testing enterprise. Automation of test scoring and the evaluation of educational programs are the subjects of two new chapters.


Beautiful Risk of Education

Beautiful Risk of Education

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  • Author: Gert J. J. Biesta
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317263308
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 178

This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W. B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there because students are not to be seen as objects to be moulded and disciplined, but as subjects of action and responsibility. The Beautiful Risk of Education is organised around a critical discussion of seven key educational concepts: creativity, communication, teaching, learning, emancipation, democracy, and virtuosity. By opposing the risk aversion that characterises many contemporary educational policies and practices, Gert J.J. Biesta makes a strong argument for giving risk a central place in our educational endeavours and brings risk taking to the forefront of a critical pedagogical practice.


Beyond Learning

Beyond Learning

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  • Author: Gert J. J. Biesta
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317263162
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176

Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. Beyond Learning asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be human as a radically open question; a question that can only be answered by engaging in education rather than as a question that needs to be answered before we can educate. The book provides a different way to understand and approach education, one that focuses on the ways in which human beings come into the world as unique individuals through responsible responses to what and who is other and different. Beyond Learning raises important questions about pedagogy, community and educational responsibility, and helps educators of children and adults alike to understand what a commitment to a truly democratic education entails.


Psychology of Education

Psychology of Education

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  • Author: Janet Lord
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 1529783925
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 593

This comprehensive guide applies evidence-based practice to real-life educational scenarios over a broad range of topics, covering everything a student of Educational Psychology needs to know.


Theorizing Teaching

Theorizing Teaching

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  • Author: Anna-Katharina Praetorius
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031256131
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 365

This open access book seeks to create a forum for discussing key questions regarding theories on teaching: Which theories of teaching do we have? What are their attributes? What do they contain? How are they generated? How context-sensitive and content-specific do they need to be? Is it possible or even desirable to develop a comprehensive theory of teaching? The book identifies areas of convergence and divergence among the answers to these questions by prominent international scholars in research on teaching. Initiating exchanges among the authors, it then evaluates whether consensus can be reached on the areas of divergence. The book concludes by discussing lessons learned from this endeavor and outlines steps that need to be taken for advancing future work on theorizing teaching. As such, the book is aimed at readers interested in an overview of the theorizing of teaching and key open questions that, if addressed, help to move the field forward.


Professional Studies for Secondary Teaching

Professional Studies for Secondary Teaching

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  • Author: Leigh Hoath
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 1529618053
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 279

Develop your professional identity and feel prepared to teach! This core text for the Professional Studies module is linked to the CCF and supports trainees to develop their knowledge, understand their role as a professional and to engage with practice and theory. Using real experiences, it helps tackle common pitfalls of the early stages of secondary teaching. Each chapter outlines the topic, describes any debates or alternate perspectives and suggests further reading or study. Readers are supported with ideas for reflection, learning activities, and assignment support in this easy-to-use title, enabling a clear intent and a structured implementation of a professional studies curriculum.


Educational Measurement

Educational Measurement

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  • Author: Robert L. Brennan
  • Publisher: ACE/Praeger Series on Higher E
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 816

The importance of this fourth edition of Educational Measurement is to extensively update and extend the topics treated in the previous three editions. As such, the fourth edition documents progress in the field and provides critical guidance to the efforts of new generations of researchers and practitioners. This new edition of Educational Measurement is edited by Robert Brennan and jointly sponsored by ACE and the National Council on Measurement in Education. It provides in-depth treatments of important measurement topics, and the chapter authors are acknowledged experts in their respective fields. NATIONAL COUNCIL ON MEASUREMENT IN EDUCATION is an organization incorporated for scientific, educational, literary, and charitable purposes: i.e., advancing of the science of measurement instruments and procedures: improving applications of measurement; and disseminating knowledge about measurement theory, techniques, and instrumentation.