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.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2015

ISBN

9781317333678

Edition

Topic

Education

Subtopic

Educational Policy

Cover Page
Half Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of Contributors
Series editors’ preface
Acknowledgements
1 National Testing from an Australian Perspective
2 What National Testing Data can Tell us
3 The Performative Politics of NAPLAN and Myschool
4 Questioning the Validity of the Multiple Uses of NAPLAN Data
5 Local Experiences, Global Similarities Teacher perceptions of the impacts of national testing
6 NAPLAN and Student Wellbeing Teacher perceptions of the impact of NAPLAN on students
7 Literacy Leadership and Accountability Practices Holding onto ethics in ways that count
8 Contesting and Capitalising on NAPLAN
9 Understanding the Politics of Categories in Reporting National Test Results
10 Students at Risk and NAPLAN The collateral damage
11 NAPLAN, Achievement Gaps and Embedding Indigenous Perspectives in Schooling Disrupting the decolonial option
12 Disadvantaged Students’ Voices on National Testing The submersion of NAPLAN’s formative potential
13 Exploring Children’s Lived Experiences of NAPLAN
14 NAPLAN and the Problem Frame Exploring representations of NAPLAN in the print media, 2010 and 2013
15 Negotiating with the Neighbours Balancing different accountabilities across a cluster of regional schools
16 The Life of Data Evolving national testing
Index