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Vicente Reyes; Louise Phillips; M. Obaidul Hamid; Ian Hardy – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
We draw upon Appadurai's 'scapes' and Latour's Actor Network Theory (ANT) to interrogate historical and spatial flows in relation to specific testing technologies. We reveal how testing systems, conceptualised as actor-networks, rearticulate colonial legacies of inequality which are intensified by new and emerging technologies. ANT helps trace…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Educational Testing, Databases
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Macarini, Luiz Antonio; Lemos dos Santos, Henrique; Cechinel, Cristian; Ochoa, Xavier; Rodés, Virgínia; Pérez Casas, Alén; Lucas, Pedro Pablo; Maya, Ricardo; Alonso, Guillermo Ettlin; Díaz, Patricia – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
The present work describes the challenges faced during the development of a countrywide Learning Analytics study and tool focused on tracking and understanding the trajectories of Uruguayan students during their first three years of secondary education. Due to the large scale of the project, which covers an entire national educational system,…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Foreign Countries, Learning Analytics, Secondary School Students
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Hartong, Sigrid – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This contribution takes a critical perspective on digital school performance platforms (SPP), which today play a key role in US state education monitoring and accountability. Using examples from two different US state education agencies, I provide an analytical disentanglement of some key dimensions of such platforms' enactment and materiality. I…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Technology Uses in Education, Performance, Accountability
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Torii, Tomoko; Okada, Yuji – Higher Education Forum, 2017
This article reports the results of a nationwide questionnaire survey of 1,104 Japanese higher education institutions conducted in late 2015 and early 2016. Its goal was to investigate the current status and issues related to the utilization and disclosure of educational information. A total of 248 institutions responded to the survey. Based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Dissemination, Information Utilization