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- Title
The social implications of national assessment.
- Authors
Gipps, Caroline
- Abstract
This paper considers the implications of national assessment in the United Kingdom. The increased emphasis on competition and on differentiation of children, the consequences for pedagogy, the likelihood of raising standards of performance, and the difficulties of addressing bias in open-ended models of assessment are all discussed. Emphasizing the position of national assessment within the ERA, the paper concludes that the effect will be to control what is taught, to raise standards of performance on the assessment, and to emphasize inequalities in educational attainment, reflecting social inequalities.
- Publication
Urban Review, 1990, Vol 22, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
0042-0972
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF01108249