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ERIC Number: EJ1197788
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Oct
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0313-5373
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'Nobody Is Watching but Everything I Do Is Measured': Teacher Accountability, Learner Agency and the Crisis of Control
Dargusch, Joanne; Charteris, Jennifer
Australian Journal of Teacher Education, v43 n10 Article 2 p24-40 Oct 2018
It is widely acknowledged that there is systemic pressure on teachers to enact assessment practices that raise student achievement. In this article assessment related discourses that influence teacher and student classroom practices are examined in relation to initial teacher education. In Australia, preservice teachers (PSTs) are required to demonstrate assessment capability, promote student agency and monitor their practice impact on student learning whilst working in schooling ecologies that are marked by high stakes accountability measures. Processes that bridge university and in-school PST teacher preparation are an important consideration in developing assessment capability. It is argued that there are tensions in the current policy environment associated with distributed classroom power relations that are emblematic of student agency in practice. The socially constituted nature of ecological agency that underpins generative assessment for learning practices is an important consideration for judgement about initial teacher assessment capability and associated graduate impact on student learning.
Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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