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Download full textAu, Wayne – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2013
This paper analyses how high-stakes, standardised testing became the policy tool in the U.S. that it is today and discusses its role in advancing an ideology of meritocracy that fundamentally masks structural inequalities related to race and economic class. This paper first traces the early history of high-stakes testing within the U.S. context,…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Equal Education, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests
