National Testing in Schools An Australian assessment [Hardcover]

Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessmentdraws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, including:

• media responses and constructions such as league tables of performance
• pressures within school systems and on schools
• effects on the work and identities of principals and teachers
• and impacts on the experience of schooling for many young people, including those least advantaged.

Using Australia as the case site for global concerns regarding national testing, this book will be an invaluable companion for education researchers, teacher educators, teacher education students and teachers globally.

1. National testing from an Australian perspective
   Bob Lingard, Greg Thompson and Sam Sellar
2. What national testing data can tell us
   Margaret Wu
3. The Performative Politics of NAPLAN and MySchool
   Radhika Gorur
4. Questioning the validity of the multiple uses of NAPLAN data
   Val Klenowski
5. Local experiences, global similarities: Teacher perceptions of the impacts of national testing
   Greg Thompson
6. NAPLAN and student wellbeing: teacher perceptions of the impact of NAPLAN on students
   Suzanne Rice, Nicky Dulfer, John Polesel and Clare OHanlon
7. Literacy leadership and accountability: Holding onto ethics in ways that count
   Lyn Kerkham and Barbara Comber
8. Contesting and capitalising on NAPLAN
   Ian Hardy
9. Understanding thl)