Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex: Understanding How Testing Perpetuates Inequity and Injustice in America

The book critiques the assessment industry and standardized testing, arguing that they have negatively impacted students, teachers, and society. It exposes the neoliberal agenda of education reformers and how proponents utilize testing data to normalize the reliance on AIC systems. The COVID-19 pandemic, racial unrest, and anti-testing movements have highlighted the need to examine systemic oppression and the impact it has on education. The book provides an opportunity to disrupt these systems and bolster societal resistance.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 138 pages
Publication date: 23 April 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book provides a comprehensive critique of the assessment industry and standardized testing, highlighting their adverse impact on students, teachers, and society. The authors argue that the interconnected developments of the testing industry and the Assessment Industrial Complex (AIC) have effectively anchored American schooling to testing. Employing an antiracist lens, the authors deconstruct the AIC, exposing the neoliberal agenda of education reformers and how proponents utilize the rhetoric of testing and the data extracted from them to normalize the reliance on AIC systems. This critique further exposes the ideological agenda of education reformers, their hypocrisy, and their gross profit from the AIC at the expense of marginalized and vulnerable students.

The COVID-19 pandemic, societal racial unrest, and anti-testing movements have underscored the need to examine systemic oppression and its impact on society through the education system. This text exposes how standardized testing perpetuates these injustices and provides an opportunity to disrupt the systems upon which they rely and bolster the societal resistance required to address these issues.

Weight: 226g
Dimension: 151 x 227 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367407872