Assessment Book

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Socio-Historical and Cultural Contexts of Assessment Policy: Editor's Introduction	7
1	The Changing Discourse of Assessment Policy: The Case of English Primary Education	11
2	Choosing Not to Know: How Assessment Policies and Practices Obscure the Education of Language Minority Students	27
Pt. II	Technologies of Testing: Editor's Introduction	43
3	Testing Technology: The Need for Oversight	47
4	How Tests Create What They are Intended to Measure	67
Pt. III	Classroom Contexts of Assessment: Editor's Introduction	83
5	Constructing the 'Legitimate' Goal of a 'Realistic' Maths Item: A Comparison of 10-11 and 13-14 year-olds	87
6	Questioning the Three Bears: The Social Construction of Classroom Assessment	110
Pt. IV	Assessment as Lived Experience Beyond the Classroom: Editor's Introduction	129
7	Assessment and Parents' Strategic Action	133
8	Making the Graduate: Perspectives on Student Experience of Assessment in Higher Education	151
Pt. V	Postmodern Perspectives and Implications for Assessment Practice: Editor's Introduction	169
9	Postmodernism and Educational Assessment	173
10	Cultural Politics, the Science of Assessment and Democratic Renewal of Public Education	189
	List of Contributors	208
	Name Index	211
	Subject Index	215