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9780415404747

Testing Times: The Uses and Abuses of Assessment

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415404747

  • ISBN10:

    0415404746

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-06-11
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Author Biography

Gordon Stobart is Professor in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. vi
Introductionp. 1
Assessing assessmentp. 13
Intelligence testing: how to create a monsterp. 30
The resistance movement: multiple and emotional intelligencesp. 57
The lure of learning stylesp. 73
The Diploma Disease: still contagious after all these years?p. 89
The long shadow of accountabilityp. 116
Reasons to be cheerful: assessment for learningp. 144
Reclaiming assessment: becoming responsible for who we arep. 171
Notesp. 187
Bibliographyp. 198
Author indexp. 213
Subject indexp. 216
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