Standardized Educational Assessments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23616591 |
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| Authors | Axel Rivas (0000-0003-4714-3511, University of San Andrés, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Pages | 969-982 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Governance and Public Management for Social Policy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190916329.013.64 |
| OpenAlex | W4377233273 |
| ISBN | 9780190916329 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In the last 25 years, Latin America became a region overwhelmed with standardized educational assessments. Standardized assessments point to a major change in the governance of education systems, not only because they enter as policy inputs for decision-making, but also because they rise to the status of high-stakes standardized assessments where rankings on outcomes are published so that parents can make informed decisions regarding school choice. The first assessment systems emerged in almost all Latin American countries during the nineties. Then, some countries introduced high-stakes assessments with publication of rankings and economic incentives for schools. The third wave of reforms seems to point toward a “reasonable convergence” among countries, with greater institutional capacity to assess schools. This chapter reviews developments in this area of public administration through a proposed typology of standardized assessment models and a comparison of different systemic-change theories in education. Decisions regarding types of assessment require re-envisioning the institutional, curricular, and pedagogical design of educational systems.
Corporate governance · Economics · Educational assessment · Incentive · Latin Americans · Management · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public economics · Sociology · Standardized test · Typology · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Psychology · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance
| Highly cited | No |
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