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Maddox, Bryan – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
Informed by Goffman's influential essay on "The neglected situation" this paper examines the contextual and interactive dimensions of performance in large-scale educational assessments. The paper applies Goffman's participation framework and associated theory in linguistic anthropology to examine how testing situations are framed and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Performance, Testing, Ethnography