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sociology of assessment: comparative and policy perspectives
the selected works of Patricia Broadfoot
Competence, competition, content and control : how assessment mediates therelationship between education and society -- The evolution of educational assessment : a necessary evil or a missed opportunity? -- Selection, certification and control : meritocracy or social reproduction? -- The value of comparative and international studies -- Towards a focus on learning and culture : time for a new approach to comparative education -- Enter a comparative learnology? : rigour and radicalism in a post-modern approach to educational comparison -- New forms of system control : the power of assessment as a tool for accountability and legitimation -- Using the comparative approach to understand teachers' priorities : the 'Bristaix study of English and French education -- Values, understanding and power: mapping the impact of assessment policy changes onteachers' practice through the PACE project -- Educational disadvantage and the impact of the 'standards agenda' : longitudinal and comparative insights on pressures for reform from the STEP project -- Comparing influences on pupil achievement? : insights from the QUEST project -- Culture, context and policy : new perspectives on learning from the ENCOMPASS studyof pupils in England, France and Denmark -- Performativity versus empowerment : how the 'assessment society' is inhibiting theadvent of a 'learning society' -- Assessment as a social technology : the socio-cultural origins and implications of the'standards' agenda -- Enter the 'assessment society' : international trends and future challenges -- Challenging the status quo: the potential of assessment for learning -- Empowering the learner : re-conceptualising powerful learning through a novel self-assessment tool -- Towards an assessment revolution? : the potentially transforming potential of computer-based assessment.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dr Patricia Broadfoot is Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Education at the University of Bristol, UK. She is a former Head of the School of Education, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Bristol and was Vice Chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and was awarded the CBE for services to Social Science.
The sociology of assessment: comparative and policy perspectives
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.