Globalization of the anglo-american approach to top-down, test-based educational accountability

Handbook of Human and Social Conditions in Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 387-403

  Lingard, Bob ^a   Lewis, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019282200     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315749136-31     Document Type: Chapter

References (96)

1. ACARA. (2011). National assessment program. Retrieved March 23, 2016 from http://www.nap.edu.au
2. Allen, J. (2011). Topological twists: Power’s shifting geographies. Dialogues in Human Geography, 1(3), 283-298. doi:10.1177/2043820611421546
3. Amin, A. (2002). Spatialities of globalization. Environment and Planning A, 34(3), 385-399. doi:10.1068/a3439
4. Anagnostopoulos, D., Rutledge, S. A., & Jacobsen, R. (Eds.). (2013). The infrastructure of accountability: Data use and the transformation of American education. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press.
5. Appadurai, A. (1996). Modernity at large: Cultural dimensions of globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
6. Au, W., & Ferrare, J. J. (Eds.). (2015). Mapping corporate education reform: Power and policy networks in the neoliberal state. New York: Routledge.
7. Australian Government. (2012). Better schools: A national plan for school improvement: The Australian Education Bill 2012. Canberra: Australian Government.
8. Ball, S. (2012). Global education inc.: New policy networks and the neo-liberal imaginary. New York: Routledge.
9. Ball, S., & Junemann, C. (2012). Networks, new governance and education. Bristol: Policy Press.
10. Ball, S., Maguire, M., & Braun, A. (2012). How schools do policy: Policy enactments in secondary schools. London: Routledge.
11. Ball, S., & Youdell, D. (2008). Hidden privatization in public education. Brussels: Education International.
12. Berliner, D. C. (2011). Rational responses to high-stakes testing: The case of curriculum narrowing and the harm that follows. Cambridge Journal of Education, 41(3), 287-302. doi:10.1080/0305764x.2011.607151
13. Biesta, G. (2004). Education, accountability and the ethical demand: Can the democratic potential of accountability be regained? Educational Theory, 54(3), 233-250. doi:10.1111/j.0013-2004.2004.00017.x
14. Brenner, N. (2004). New state spaces: Urban governance and the rescaling of statehood. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
15. Brown, G.T.L., & Hattie, J. A. (2012). The benefits of regular standardized assessment in childhood education: Guiding improved instruction and learning. In S. Suggate & E. Reese (Eds.) Contemporary educational debates in childhood education and development (pp. 287-292). London: Routledge.
16. Burch, P. (2009). Hidden markets: The new education privatization. New York: Routledge.
17. Carvalho, L. M., & Costa, E. (2014). Seeing education with one’s own eyes and through PISA lenses: Considerations of the reception of PISA in European countries. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 36(5), 638-646. doi:10.1080/01596306.2013.871449
18. Condron, D. J. (2011). Egalitarianism and educational excellence: Compatible goals for affluent societies? Educational Researcher, 40(2), 47-55. doi:10.3102/0013189x11401021
19. Cooper, E., & Jackson, P. (2015, 19 May). The Atlanta cheating scandal: Students were the victims but the school system suffers too. The Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-cooper/theatlanta-cheating-scan_b_7309084.html
20. Darling-Hammond, L. (2010). The flat world and education: How America’s commitment to equity will determine our future. New York: Teachers College Press.
21. de Sousa Santos, B. (2006). Globalizations. Theory, Culture & Society, 23(2-3), 393-399. doi:10.1177/026327640602300268
22. Dillon, S. (2010, December 7). Top test scores from Shanghai stun educators. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/education/07education.html?_r=0
23. Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee (The Senate). (2010). Administration and reporting of NAPLAN testing. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.
24. Eggers, W. D. (2008). The changing nature of government: Network governance. In J. O’Flynn & J. Wanna (Eds.), Collaborative governance: A new era of public policy in Australia? (pp. 23-28). Canberra: ANU E Press.
25. Ertl, H. (2006). Educational standards and the changing discourse on education: The reception and consequences of the PISA study in Germany. Oxford Review of Education, 32(5), 619-634. doi:10.1080/03054980600976320
26. Feniger, Y., & Lefstein, A. (2014). How not to reason with PISA data: An ironic investigation. Journal of Education Policy, 29(6), 845-855. doi:10.1080/02680939.2014.892156
27. Goodhart, C.A.E. 1984. Monetary Theory and Practice. The UK Experience. London: Macmillan.
28. Gorur, R., & Koyama, J. P. (2013). The struggle to technicize in education policy. The Australian Educational Researcher, 40(5), 633-648. doi:10.1007/s13384-013-0125-9
29. Grek, S. (2009). Governing by numbers: The PISA “effect” in Europe. Journal of Education Policy, 24(1), 23-37. doi:10.1080/02680930802412669
30. Harrer, A. (2015, March 30). Big education firms spend millions lobbying for pro-testing policies. The Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/03/30/reportbig-education-firms-spend-millions-lobbying-for-pro-testing-policies/
31. Hattie, J.A.C., & Brown, G.T.L. (2007). Technology for school-based assessment and assessment for learning: Development principles from New Zealand. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 36(2), 189-201. doi:10.2190/ET.36.2.g
32. Head, B. W. (2008). Three lenses of evidence-based policy. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 67(1), 1-11. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8500.2007.00564.x
33. Henry, M., Lingard, B., Rizvi, F., & Taylor, S. (2001). The OECD, globalization and education policy. Oxford: IAU Press.
34. Hogan, A., Sellar, S., & Lingard, B. (2015). Network restructuring of global edu-business: The case of Pearson’s Efficacy Framework. In W. Au & J. J. Ferrare (Eds.), Mapping corporate education reform: Power and policy networks in the neoliberal state (pp. 43-62). New York: Routledge.
35. Hood, C. (1990). Beyond the public bureaucracy state: Public administration in the 1990s. London: London School of Economics.
36. Hursh, D. (2013). Raising the stakes: High-stakes testing and the attack on public education in New York. Journal of Education Policy, 28(5), 574-588. doi:10.1080/02680939.2012.758829
37. Hursh, D. (2016) The end of public schools: The corporate reform agenda to privatize public education. New York: Routledge.
38. Jessop, B. (2002). Liberalism, neoliberalism, and urban governance: A state-theoretical perspective. Antipode, 34(3), 452-472. doi:10.1111/1467-8330.00250
39. Jessop, B. (2008). State power. Cambridge: Polity Press.
40. Lawn, M. (Ed.). (2013). The rise of data in education systems: Collection, visualization and use. Wallingford: Symposium Books.
41. Lee, J. (2010). Trick or treat: New ecology of education accountability system in the USA. Journal of Education Policy, 25(1), 73-93. doi:10.1080/02680930903377423
42. Lewis, S., & Hardy, I. (2015). Funding, reputation and targets: The discursive logics of high-stakes testing. Cambridge Journal of Education, 45(2), 245-264. doi:10.1080/0305764x.2014.936826
43. Lewis, S., Sellar, S., & Lingard, B. (2015). “PISA for Schools”: Topological rationality and new spaces of the OECD’s global educational governance. Comparative Education Review, 60(1), 27-57. doi: 10.1086/684458
44. Lingard, B. (2011). Policy as numbers: Ac/counting for educational research. The Australian Educational Researcher, 38(4), 355-382. doi:10.1007/s13384-011-0041-9
45. Lingard, B., Martino, W., & Rezai-Rashti, G. (2013). Testing regimes, accountabilities and education policy: Commensurate global and national developments. Journal of Education Policy, 28(5), 539-556. doi:10.1080/02680939.2013.820042
46. Lingard, B., Martino, W., Rezai-Rashti, G., & Sellar, S. (2016). Globalizing educational accountabilities. New York: Routledge.
47. Lingard, B., Sellar, S., & Savage, G. C. (2014). Re-articulating social justice as equity in schooling policy: The effects of testing and data infrastructures. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 35(5), 710-730. doi:10.1080/01425692.2014.919846
48. Lingard, B., Thompson, G., & Sellar, S. (Eds.). (2016) National testing in schools: An Australian assessment. London: Routledge.
49. Linn, R. L. (2000). Assessments and accountability. Educational Researcher, 29(2), 4-16. doi:10.3102/0013189X029002004
50. Literacy Educators Coalition. (2015). Say no to NAPLAN. Retrieved from http://www.literacyeducators.com.au/naplan/naplan-articles/
51. Mahony, P., Hextall, I., & Menter, I. (2004). Building dams in Jordan, assessing teachers in England: A case study in edu-business. Globalization, Societies and Education, 2(2), 277-296. doi:10.1080/14767720410001733674
52. Mayer-Schönberger, V., & Cukier, K. (2013). Big data: A revolution that will transform how we live, work and think. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
53. Meyer, H.-D., & Schiller, K. (2013). Gauging the role of non-educational effects in large-scale assessments: Socio-economics, culture and PISA outcomes. In H.-D. Meyer & A. Benavot (Eds.), The emergence of global educational governance (pp. 207-224). Oxford: Symposium Books.
54. Milman, O. (2014, 10 December). NAPLAN: Number of children opting out of national tests hits all-time high. The Guardian Australia. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/dec/10/naplan-number-of-children-opting-out-tests-hits-high
55. Mintrop, H., & Sunderman, G. L. (2013). The paradoxes of data-driven school reform: Learning from two generations of centralized accountability systems in the United States In D. Anagnostopoulos, S. A. Rutledge, & R. Jacobsen (Eds.), The infrastructure of accountability: Data use and the transformation of American education (pp. 23-39). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
56. The National Commission on Excellence in Education. (1983). A Nation at Risk: The imperative for educational reform Retrieved from http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/index.html
57. Nichols, S. L., & Berliner, D. (2007). Collateral damage: How high-stakes testing corrupts America’s schools. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
58. Nichols, S. L., Glass, G. V., & Berliner, D. C. (2012). High-stakes testing and student achievement: Updated analyses with NAEP data. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 20(20), 1-35. doi:10.14507/epaa.v20n20.2012
59. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, Pub. L. No. 107-110 § 115, 1425 Stat. (2002).
60. Noguera, P. (2015, 15 April). Accountability for whom? The Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffing tonpost.com/pedro-noguera/atlanta-teachers-convicted_b_7069000.html
61. Nóvoa, A., & Yariv-Mashal, T. (2003). Comparative research in education: A mode of governance or a historical journey? Comparative Education, 39(4), 423-438. doi:10.1080/0305006032000162002
62. OECD. (2015). Programme for international student assessment: About PISA. Retrieved from http://www.oecd.org/pisa/aboutpisa/
63. Ozga, J. (2009). Governing education through data in England: From regulation to self-evaluation. Journal of Education Policy, 24(2), 149-162. doi:10.1080/02680930902733121
64. QCAA. (2014). School-based assessment: The Queensland system. Brisbane: Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority.
65. Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority. (2015). Queensland Comparable Assessment Tasks (QCATs 2009-2012). Retrieved from https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/3163.html
66. Ravitch, D. (2010). The death and life of the great American school system: How testing and choice are undermining education. New York: Basic Books.
67. Ravitch, D. (2012, 7 June). Pearsonizing our children [Web log message]. Diane Ravitch’s blog. Retrieved from http://dianeravitch.net/2012/06/07/pearsonization/
68. Rhodes, R. (1997). Understanding governance: Policy networks, governance, reflexivity and accountability. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.
69. Rizvi, F., & Lingard, B. (2010). Globalizing education policy. New York: Routledge.
70. Rose, N. (1999). Powers of freedom: Reframing political thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
71. Rutkowski, D. (2007). Converging us softly: How intergovernmental organizations promote neoliberal educational policy. Critical Studies in Education, 48(2), 229-247. doi:10.1080/17508480701494259
72. Sahlberg, P. (2007). Education policies for raising student learning: The Finnish approach. Journal of Education Policy, 22(2), 147-171. doi:10.1080/02680930601158919
73. Sahlberg, P. (2011). Finnish lessons: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland? New York: Teachers College Press.
74. Sassen, S. (2006). Territory, authority, rights: From medieval to global assemblages. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
75. Scharpf, F. W. (1994). Games real actors could play: Positive and negative coordination in embedded negotiations. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 6(1), 27-53. doi:10.1177/0951692894006001002
76. Schriewer, J. (1990). The method of comparison and the need for externalization: Methodological criteria and sociological concepts. In J. Schriewer & B. Holmes (Eds.), Theories and methods in comparative education (2nd ed., pp. 25-83). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
77. Schriewer, J., & Martinez, C. (2004). Constructions of internationality in education. In G. Steiner-Khamsi (Ed.), The global politics of educational borrowing and lending (pp. 29-53). New York: Teachers College Press.
78. Sellar, S. (2014). Data infrastructure: A review of expanding accountability systems and large-scale assessments in education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 36(5), 765-777. doi:10.1080/01596306.2014.931117
79. Sellar, S., & Lingard, B. (2013). Looking East: Shanghai, PISA 2009 and the reconstitution of reference societies in the global education policy field. Comparative Education, 49(4), 464-485. doi:10.1080/03050068.2013.770943
80. Sellar, S., & Lingard, B. (2014). The OECD and the expansion of PISA: New global modes of governance in education. British Educational Research Journal, 40(6), 917-936. doi:10.1002/berj.3120
81. Simola, H., Rinne, R., Varjo, J., & Kauko, J. (2013). The paradox of the education race: How to win the ranking game by sailing to headwind. Journal of Education Policy, 28(5), 612-633. doi:10.1080/02680939.2012.758832
82. Singer, A. (2014). Education flashpoints: Fighting for America’s schools. New York: Routledge.
83. Singer, A. (2015, 16 August). Big win for opt-out. The Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffington post.com/alan-singer/big-win-for-opt-out_b_7994054.html
84. Slater, G. B. (2014). Education as recovery: Neoliberalism, school reform, and the politics of crisis. Journal of Education Policy, 30(1), 1-20. doi:10.1080/02680939.2014.904930
85. Smith, M. L., & Fey, P. (2000). Validity and accountability in high-stakes testing. Journal of Teacher Education, 51(5), 334-344. doi:10.1177/0022487100051005002
86. Smith, M. L., Heinecke, W., & Noble, A., J. (1999). Assessment policy and political spectacle. Teachers College Record, 101(2), 157-191.
87. Stobart, G. (2008). Testing times: The uses and abuses of assessment. Oxon: Routledge.
88. Supovitz, J. (2009). Can high-stakes testing leverage educational improvement? Prospects from the last decade of testing and accountability reform. Journal of Educational Change, 10(2), 211-227. doi:10.1007/s10833-009-9105-2
89. Takayama, K. (2007). A Nation at Risk crosses the Pacific: Borrowing of the U.S. crisis discourse in the debate on education reform in Japan. Comparative Education Review, 51(4), 423-446. doi:10.1086/520864
90. Takayama, K. (2008). The politics of international league tables: PISA in Japan’s achievement crisis debate. Comparative Education, 44(4), 387-407. doi:10.1080/03050060802481413
91. Takayama, K. (2010). Politics of externalization in reflexive times: Reinventing Japanese educational reform discourse through “Finnish PISA success”. Comparative Education Review, 54(1), 51-75. doi:10.1086/644838
92. Takayama, K. (2015). Provincializing the world culture theory debate: Critical insights from a margin. Globalization, Societies and Education, 13(1), 34-57. doi:10.1080/14767724.2014.967485
93. Tröhler, D. (2013). The OECD and cold war culture: Thinking historically about PISA. In H.-D. Meyer & A. Benavot (Eds.), PISA, power and policy: The emergence of global educational governance (pp. 141-161). Oxford: Symposium Books.
94. US Department of Education. (2009). Race to the Top program: Executive summary. Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/executive-summary.pdf
95. Wilson, D., Croxson, B., & Atkinson, A. (2006). “What gets measured gets done”. Policy Studies, 27(2), 153-171. doi:10.1080/01442870600637995
96. Zeichner, N. (2013). Mapping a teacher boycott in Seattle. Phi Delta Kappa, 92(5), 52-58. doi:10.1177/003172171309500212