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The Limits of Educational Assessment

Andrew Davis
ISBN: 978-0-631-21020-7
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192 pages
January 1999, Wiley-Blackwell
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Part I: The Need for a Philosophical Treatment of Assessment.

Part II: Accountability and the Economy.

Part III: Understanding and Holism.

Part IV: Belief and Language-based Assessment.

Part V: Implications for Assessment.

Part VI: Transfer, Abilities and Rules.

Part VII: Matching.

Part VIII: Reliability, Validity and Criterion-referencing.

Part IX: Is there a Future for Assessment and Accountability?.

Index.

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