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Mandated Literacy Assessment and the Reorganisation of Teachers' Work: Federal Policy, Local Effects
Comber, Barbara – Critical Studies in Education, 2012
This paper explores how mandated literacy assessment is reorganising teachers' work in the context of Australia's National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy, which was implemented in 2008. Students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are tested annually, with school results publicly available. The wider policy context and the emergence of different…
Descriptors: Testing, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education

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