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2014
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| author | Sherman Dorn |
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| contents | Testing Like William the Conqueror: Cultural and Instrumental Uses of Examinations Sherman Dorn Educación state testing history building Accountability The spread of academic testing for accountability purposes in multiple countries has obscured at least two historical purposes of academic testing: community ritual and management of the social structure. Testing for accountability is very different from the purpose of academic challenges one can identif y in community “examinations” in 19th century North America, or exams’ controlling ac cess to the civil service in Imperial China. Rather than testing for ritual or access to mobility, the modern uses of testing are much closer to the state - building project of a tax census, such as the Domesday Book of medieval Britain after the Norman Invasion, the social engineering projects described in James Scott's Seeing like a State (1998), or the “mapping the world” project that David Nye described in America as Seco nd Creation (2004). This paper will explore both the instrumental and cultural differences among testing as ritual, testing as mobility control, and testing as state - building. 2014 artículo científico 1068-2341 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=275031898144 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=2750 Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas application/pdf Arizona State University Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas (Estados Unidos de América) Vol.22 |
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| publisher | Arizona State University |
| spellingShingle | Testing Like William the Conqueror: Cultural and Instrumental Uses of Examinations Sherman Dorn Educación state testing history building Accountability Testing Like William the Conqueror: Cultural and Instrumental Uses of Examinations Sherman Dorn Educación state testing history building Accountability The spread of academic testing for accountability purposes in multiple countries has obscured at least two historical purposes of academic testing: community ritual and management of the social structure. Testing for accountability is very different from the purpose of academic challenges one can identif y in community “examinations” in 19th century North America, or exams’ controlling ac cess to the civil service in Imperial China. Rather than testing for ritual or access to mobility, the modern uses of testing are much closer to the state - building project of a tax census, such as the Domesday Book of medieval Britain after the Norman Invasion, the social engineering projects described in James Scott's Seeing like a State (1998), or the “mapping the world” project that David Nye described in America as Seco nd Creation (2004). This paper will explore both the instrumental and cultural differences among testing as ritual, testing as mobility control, and testing as state - building. 2014 artículo científico 1068-2341 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=275031898144 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=2750 Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas application/pdf Arizona State University Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas (Estados Unidos de América) Vol.22 |
| title | Testing Like William the Conqueror: Cultural and Instrumental Uses of Examinations |
| topic | Educación state testing history building Accountability |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=275031898144 |