The Sociology of Assessment: Comparative and Policy Perspectives: The Selected Works of Patricia Broadfoot (World Library of Educationalists)

Preface Introduction Part 1 The rationality of judgement: understanding educational assessment sociologically. 1. Competence, competition, content and control: how assessment mediates the relationship between education and society. 2. Selection, certification and control: meritocracy or social reproduction? Part 2 Insights from comparing national education systems: empirical studies of differences in the impact of assessment for system control on teachers and pupils 3. Towards a focus on learning and culture: time for a new approach to comparative education? 4. New forms of system control: the power of assessment as a tool for accountability and legitimation. 5.Using the comparative approach to understand teachers priorities: the `Bristaix study of English and French education. 6. Values, understanding and power: mapping the impact of assessment policy changes on teachers practice through the PACE project. 7. Comparing influences on pupil achievement? Insights from the QUEST project. 8. Culture, context and policy: new perspectives on learning from the ENCOMPASS study of pupils in England, France and Denmark. Part 3 Assessment as a policy tool 9. Performativity versus empowerment: how the `assessment society is inhibiting the advent of a `learning society. 10. Assessment as a social technology: the socio-cultural origins and implications of the `standards agenda. Part 4 Anticipating the future: assessment for learning and the digital revolution. 11. Enter the `assessment society: international trends and future challenges. 12. Challenging the status quo: the potential of assessment for learning. 13. Towards an Assessment Revolution? The potentially transforming potential of computer-based assessment. Epilogue Postscript