Making a grade : Victorian examinations and the rise of standardized testing /
Starting in the 1850s achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale. By the end of the century more than two million people had written mass exams, particularly in science, technology, and mathematics. Some candidates responded to this stand...
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University of Toronto Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- The Age of Examinations: A Historical Sketch
- Monetizing Marks: The Political Economy of Examinations
- An Epistemology of the Mundane: Dissecting One Examination
- Daguerreotypes of the Mind: Paper, Partition, and Specialization
- Machining Minds: Commensuration, Tabulation, and Standardization
- Thin Descriptions: Credentials and Other Signals
- Learning and Earning: Coaching or Cramming?
- Immoral Economies: How to Cheat on a Victorian Exam
- Economies, Remoralized: Examinations as Technologies of Inclusion
- "The Age of Examinations": A Historical Sketch
- Monetizing Marks: The Political Economy of Examinations
- An Epistemology of the Mundane: Dissecting One Examination
- Daguerreotypes of the Mind: Paper, Partition, and Specialization
- Machining Minds: Commensuration, Tabulation, and Standardization
- Thin Descriptions: Credentials and Other Signals
- Learning and Earning: Coaching or Cramming?
- Immoral Economies: How to Cheat on a Victorian Exam
- Economies, Remoralized: Examinations as Technologies of Inclusion
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Examinations
- 1 "The Age of Examinations": A Historical Sketch
- 2 Monetizing Marks: The Political Economy of Examinations
- 3 An Epistemology of the Mundane: Dissecting One Examination
- Part Two: Examiners
- 4 Daguerreotypes of the Mind: Paper, Partition, and Specialization
- 5 Machining Minds: Commensuration, Tabulation, and Standardization
- 6 Thin Descriptions: Credentials and Other Signals
- Part Three: Examinees
- 7 Learning and Earning: Coaching, Cramming, and Arms Races
- 8 Immoral Economies: How to Cheat on a Victorian Exam
- 9 Economies, Remoralized: Examinations as Technologies of Inclusion
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Important Dates
- Appendix B: Biographical List
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index