"Will I Learn What I Want to Learn?" Usable Representations, "Students" and OECD Assessment Production

Autor/inn/en	Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Morgan, Clara; Nguyen, David J.
Titel	"Will I Learn What I Want to Learn?" Usable Representations, "Students" and OECD Assessment Production
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 36 (2015) 5, S.700-711 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2014.986715
Schlagwörter	Educational Policy; Tests; Evaluation Methods; International Programs; College Students; Higher Education; Student Evaluation; Test Construction; Standardized Tests; Case Studies; Global Approach; Documentation; Classification; Student Characteristics; Student Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Testaufbau; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Globales Denken; Dokumentation; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem
Abstract	Amid growing debates around international assessment tools in educational policy, few have critically examined how students themselves are cast in policy tool production processes and discourse. Drawing on Stuart Hall's concept of representation, we show how higher education (HE) "students" are constructed, fixed and normalized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) initiative. Based on an analysis of AHELO texts, we argue that the OECD, during the early stages of test production, fixes and circulates the meaning of "students" as represented objects. We identify and analyze two distinct representational practices at work in AHELO texts: "classifying and organizing," and "marking." We posit that by fixing images of the student as an object of learning and as a consumer-investor subject, the OECD creates "usable" representations of "students" to claim jurisdiction over teaching and learning in HE and to justify intervention through standardized testing. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01