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Direct linkThompson, Greg – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article critically considers the promise of computer adaptive testing (CAT) and digital data to provide better and quicker data that will improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of schooling. In particular, it uses the case of the Australian NAPLAN test that will become an online, adaptive test from 2016. The article argues that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, National Competency Tests
Thompson, Greg; Bell, James – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
Quiet students are a feature of the organisation of secondary schools. Using qualitative methods and Deleuzean conceptualisations of modern subjectivity, this paper explores the ways that quiet students negotiate the terrain of their school. These negotiations often seem to produce a self that is trapped rather than a subject who seizes…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Student Behavior, Secondary School Students, Student Participation
