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The Philosophical Limitations of Educational Assessment

Implications for Academic Selection

Ian Cantley

Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date : 2024-02-03

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This book uses philosophical analysis to argue that there are tensions associated with using results of high stakes tests to predict students’ future potential. The implications of these issues for the interpretation of test scores in general are then elucidated before their connotations for academic selection are considered. After a brief overview of the history of academic selection in the United Kingdom, and a review of evidence pertaining to its consequences, it is argued that the practice of using the results of contemporary high stakes tests to make important decisions about students incurs logical and moral problems that a conscientious educator cannot ignore. The gravity of the moral transgression depends on the purpose and significance of the test and, in the case of high stakes tests used for academic selection purposes, it is argued that, not only can the moral wrong be highly significant, but better solutions are within reach.

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Author

Ian Cantley

Imprint

Palgrave Macmillan

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Publication date

2024-02-03

Pages

157 pages

Print ISBN

9783031470202

Language

English

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Print count 15

File size 3297 Ko

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9783031470219

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Ian Cantley

Ian Cantley is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His research interests lie in both educational assessment and mathematics education, and he has published extensively in these areas. Ian’s teaching and supervision responsibilities include contributions to initial teacher education, and masters’ and doctoral programmes in education.

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