Testing Regimes, Accountabilities and Education Policy

Around the globe, various kinds of testing have begun to steer educational systems in particular directions, having great effects on schools and on teacher practices, as well as upon student learning and curricula. The suggestion is that high stakes standardised testing will drive up standards and enhance the quality of a nation’s human capital and thus their international economic competitiveness, but this discourse still manifests itself in specific, vernacular, path dependent ways in different nations. This edited collection explores these developments. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education Policy.