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Thompson, Greg; Cook, Ian – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
High-stakes testing is changing what it means to be a "good teacher" in the contemporary school. This paper uses Deleuze and Guattari's ideas on the control society and dividuation in the context of National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) testing in Australia to suggest that the database generates new understandings of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, National Competency Tests, High Stakes Tests