Testing regimes, accountabilities and education policy: Commensurate global and national developments

Journal of Education Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 539-556

  Lingard, Bob ^a   Martino, Wayne ^b   Rezai Rashti, Goli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

accountability; big data; global panopticism; infrastructure; policy; rescaling; testing; topological turn

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883656697     PISSN: 02680939     EISSN: 14645106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2013.820042     Document Type: Editorial

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