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Direct linkWaldow, Florian – Comparative Education Review, 2014
In societies following a meritocratic ideal, educational certificates and examinations play a key role in allocating life chances to individuals. Procedures for allocating life chances need to be perceived as fair by those concerned if examinations and certificates are to possess legitimacy. This article traces and compares basic conceptions of…
Descriptors: Justice, Foreign Countries, Ethics, Comparative Education
Mandated Literacy Assessment and the Reorganisation of Teachers' Work: Federal Policy, Local Effects
Comber, Barbara – Critical Studies in Education, 2012
This paper explores how mandated literacy assessment is reorganising teachers' work in the context of Australia's National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy, which was implemented in 2008. Students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are tested annually, with school results publicly available. The wider policy context and the emergence of different…
Descriptors: Testing, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education
