Digital disruption in teaching and testing : assessments, big data, and the transformation of schooling / edited by Claire Wyatt-Smith, Bob Lingard, and Elizabeth Heck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyatt-Smith, Claire, Editor.

Contributor:

Wyatt-Smith, Claire, editor.

Lingard, Bob, editor.

Heck, Elizabeth, editor.

Series:

Critical Social Thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Data processing.

Education.

Big data.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book provides a significant contribution to the increasing conversation concerning the place of big data in education. Offering a multidisciplinary approach with a diversity of perspectives from international scholars and industry experts, chapter authors engage in both research- and industry-informed discussions and analyses on the place of big data in education, particularly as it pertains to large-scale and ongoing assessment practices moving into the digital space. This volume offers an innovative, practical, and international view of the future of current opportunities and challenges in education and the place of assessment in this context"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Series Editor's Introduction

Acknowledgements

Editor Biographies

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

1. Transforming Schooling through Digital Disruption: Big Data, Policy, Teaching, and Assessment

Introduction

Backdrop and Contexts

Policy and Assessment Frames

Education Policy

Working Together - Policy and Assessment Frames in the Digital

Digital Disruption in and through Assessment and Testing

Digital Disruption in and through Big Data

Digital Disruption in Teaching

Digital Literacy and Data Literacy for Teachers

Chapters in the Collection

Conclusion

2. Automated Knowledge Discovery: Tracing the Frontiers, Infrastructures, and Practices of Education and Data Science

Data Science Frontiers

Education Data Science

Precision Learning Engineering

Inscribed Bodies

3. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: A Practical and Ethical Guide for Teachers

What Is AI?

What Is Machine Learning (ML)?

How Is AI Used in Education?

What Are the Ethical Concerns with AI and Some of the Governance Implications?

1. Awareness

2. Explainability

3. Fairness

4. Transparency

5. Accountability

4. The Relationship between Humans and Machines in Public Policy

Digital: It Is Not New, and It Is All around Us

Problem Solving through AI

Building Confidence to Address the Risks

Action and Reaction

Innovation, Regulation, and Oversight

Conclusion: Better Public Policy through Digital

1. Create the Environment for Innovation

2. Nurture an Ethical Use Culture

3. Make Risk Your Friend

4. Success in the Digital Realm Relies on Structure.

5. Amazon Go for Education? Artificial Intelligence, Disruption, and Intensification

Conceptual and Methodological Note: Speculation as beyond Gray Literature

Intensification

Datafication and Data Infrastructures

Pre-automation and the Structuring of Professional Obsolescence

Disruption

Human-machine Learning

Education Technology Platforms as Education Providers

Literacies and Skills in a "Third Media Revolution"

Avoiding Technological Somnambulism: Enlarging Our Considerations of AI in Education

6. Pearson's Digital Transformation and the Disruption of Public Education

The Digital Transformation of the GEI

Methods

Charting the Promotion of Digital Learning in Pearson's "Open Ideas" Forum

Digital Transformation and the Disruption of Teaching, Curriculum, and Assessment

Disrupting Teaching

Disrupting Curriculum and Instruction

Disrupting Schools

7. Costs of Big Data: Challenges and Possibilities of Cost-benefit Analysis of ILSAs

US Participation in ILSAs: What Does It Cost?

ILSA Costs in the US

Possibilities and Challenges of Exploring Costs and Benefits of ILSAs

8. Data Infrastructures and the (Ambivalent) Effects of Rising Data Interoperability: Insights from Germany

The German "Context" of Datafying and Digitalizing Education

Understanding the "Disruptive" Potential of Data Infrastructures: Three Examples from Germany

The Transforming Infrastructures of Standardized Assessments

The Transforming Infrastructures of State School Monitoring

The Transforming Infrastructure of School Platforms and Learning Management Systems

Conclusion and Outlook

Disclosure Statement

9. Datafication and Surveillance Capitalism: The Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS).

Introduction

The Datafication of Teachers and Teaching: Providing Fertile Ground for Surveillance Capitalism

Teacher Accountability and the T-TESS

The T-TESS Ensemble

Rendering Teacher Performance as Data: SAS Analytics Inc.

Rendering Teacher Behavior as Data: Responsive Learning

Rendering Teacher Experience as Data: NIET

Discussion and Conclusion: The Possibilities for Surveillance Capitalism via the T-TESS

10. Governing by Dashboard: Reconfiguring Education Governance in the Global South

Dashboards in Governance

The Sociotechnical Imaginary of the GEPD

The Imagined "System"

The Imagined Classroom

The Imagined User

Conclusion and Discussion: Contradictions and Conundrums

11. Next Generation Online Assessments, Technical Democracy, and Responding to Digital Disruption

Education Reform in Australia

Problems with NAPLAN Census Testing

The Online Formative Assessment Initiative

The Logistics of Engagement

New Possibilities: Owning Data and Responding to the Displacement of the Teacher

12. "Lenses on COVID-19": Provocations

Provocation #1: Digital Education in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Critical Hopes and Concerns

Point 1: COVID-19 as cover for the Corporate Reform of Education

Point 2: Establishing Alternate Agendas and Counter-narratives

Note

Provocation #2: Education without Borders, Rule without Limit Nick Couldry

The impact of COVID-19

Provocation #3: The Electric "Shock" of the COVID-19 Crisis on Schooling

New Global Policy Networks

Pandemic Prototyping

Private Infrastructures

Pandemic Profit Making

Acknowledgement.

Provocation #4: Teachers, the Anti-heroes? The Global Pandemic Crisis and the Construction of Teachers as the Problem "Other"

The Changing Narrative

Provocation #5: The COVID-19 Pandemic Creates Opportunities to Repair the Infrastructure of Public Education

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-304579-0

1-000-37742-3

1-003-04579-0

1-000-37737-7

9781003045793

OCLC:

1246575801

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access