Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex

Name: Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book offers a comprehensive critique of how the assessment industry and standardized testing adversely impact students, teachers, and society. The authors present the case that the interconnected developments of the testing industry and the Assessment Industrial Complex (AIC) have effectively anchored American schooling to testing. Using 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 education reformers\u2019 ideological agenda, their hypocrisy, and how they grossly profit from the AIC at the expense of society\u2019s marginalized and most vulnerable students. The COVID-19 pandemic, society\u2019s racial unrest, and anti-testing movements have aligned to underscore the need to examine systemic oppression and the impact it has on society through our education system.