NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 5 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bagger, Anette – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2022
Students with special educational needs (SEN) are systematically hindered in their participation in test-taking and, as a result, are also excluded from participating in high-quality learning. Hence, participation in the assessment situation is connected to power relations and future prospects and possibilities to participate in society. This…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Students with Disabilities, Power Structure, Standardized Tests
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Keller, Lena; Preckel, Franzis; Brunner, Martin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
It is well-documented that academic achievement is associated with students' self-perceptions of their academic abilities, that is, their academic self-concepts. However, low-achieving students may apply self-protective strategies to maintain a favorable academic self-concept when evaluating their academic abilities. Consequently, the relation…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, High Achievement, Low Achievement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Silfver, Eva; Sjöberg, Gunnar; Bagger, Anette – Ethnography and Education, 2016
This article draws on data from a bigger project where we explore what is taking place in the daily life of classrooms during the national testing period in mathematics for 9-10-year-old children in Sweden. Data were produced by observations, video-recordings and interviews with children. The article shows on a micro level how assessment trends,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Torpsten, Ann-Christin – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2013
The purpose of this article is to show second-language pupils' experiences in school and their understanding of school through analysis of how they talk about the multilingual primary school and instruction. These stories about school life are studied with a life story approach, and the research process can be described in three steps: tell,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Language Minorities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lunneblad, Johannes; Carlsson, Maj Asplund – Ethnography and Education, 2012
Our aim in this article is to analyse the impact of the standardised test on classroom practices in grade 5 in a compulsory school in western Sweden. In our analysis, the use of the concept of the pedagogical device (Bernstein 1996) provides a framework for understanding how high-stakes, standardised testing regulates classroom discourse and…
Descriptors: Testing, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Standardized Tests