Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Israel Moreno Salto -- Copyright page / Israel Moreno Salto -- Foreword: Choreographing the Governing of Education / Susan L. Robertson -- List of Figures and Tables / Israel Moreno Salto -- Part 1 The Large-scale Assessment Assemblage / Israel Moreno Salto -- Chapter 1 Introduction / Israel Moreno Salto -- Chapter 2 The Rise and Development of Large-scale Assessments as Tools for Governing / Israel Moreno Salto -- Chapter 3 Expanding Our Understandings of Large-scale Assessments and Governance / Israel Moreno Salto -- Chapter 4 Mexico’s Cacophony or Harmony of Large-scale Assessments? / Israel Moreno Salto -- Part 2 Large-scale Assessments at the Local, Subnational and National / Israel Moreno Salto -- Chapter 5 Local Scale / Israel Moreno Salto -- Chapter 6 Subnational Scale / Israel Moreno Salto -- Chapter 7 National Scale / Israel Moreno Salto -- Part 3 Expanding Our Understandings of Large-scale Assessments / Israel Moreno Salto -- Chapter 8 Governing Tools / Israel Moreno Salto -- Chapter 9 Conclusions / Israel Moreno Salto -- References / Israel Moreno Salto -- Index / Israel Moreno Salto.

Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly frequent to come across the co-existence of multiple large-scale assessment surveys within national, subnational, or local settings. Despite the overlapping of tests, time, efforts, and economic resources invested in these “assessment assemblages”, much remains to be learned about their origins, development, tensions, frictions, outcomes, and challenges. Harmony and Cacophony in Large-scale Assessments in Education delves into these issues via a critical lens and offers a case in point against which readers can place their own situations. In other words, it serves as an empirically grounded thinking toolbox to help readers problematize emerging, ongoing, or upcoming challenges related to their large-scale assessment settings.

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