This slide discuss the socio-Cultural aspects of assessment

1. Gipps, 1999
Prepared by Erika Restrepo 2016
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2. Assessment for selection
and certification
Accessing professions
Showing competence
School leaving
University Entrance

3. Increasing amount of students
completing secondary schooling.
Examinations at every level of
government would avoid
politicians
favoring their supporters with
jobs.
IQ tests to identify able and
ineducable children.

4. “Performance at school may be
affected by social and cultural
background factors. Among these
factors are poverty, poor resources at
home and/or school, absenteeism
owing to work or domestic duties,
mismatch between the language and
culture of the home and the school,
gender bias, and ethnic discrimination.
As a result, examinations may be
biased, and furthermore, because of
their role in certification, they may
institutionalize and legitimate social
stratification.” (p.361)

5. Testing is now being used to
control curriculum and teaching.
Developments in cognition and
learning are telling us to assess
more broadly, in context, and in
depth.
The power in the relationship
between student and teacher in
the assessment act is still often
overlooked.

6. “The assessment result itself is
only one piece of information the
teacher will draw on in making
inferences and determining
subsequent steps; the other
pieces of information are the
pupil’s personal and learning
history, the realities and
constraints of the class, and the
type of assessment information.”
(p. 386)

7. “The assessment result itself is
only one piece of information the
teacher will draw on in making
inferences and determining
subsequent steps; the other
pieces of information are the
pupil’s personal and learning
history, the realities and
constraints of the class, and the
type of assessment information.”
(p. 386)