Product Platform and Product Family Design: Methods and Applications by Roger Jianxin Jiao, Timothy W. Simpson, Zahed Siddique

Product Platform and Product Family Design: Methods and Applications



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Product Platform and Product Family Design: Methods and Applications Roger Jianxin Jiao, Timothy W. Simpson, Zahed Siddique
Language: English
Page: 563
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0387257217, 9780387257211
Publisher: Springer

"The novelty of Objectifying Measures is the clarity with which an analysis of statistical discourse is mapped out to show its complex relationship to inequality. Johnson offers a reader-friendly ethnography that demands attention... Her analysis of assumptions and biases which frame and inform standardized testing as a method of defining and measuring failure/progress is timely and important. Highly recommended!"
—Katya Gibel Mevorach, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department & American Studies Concentration at Grinnell College

Book Description

In the past twenty years, the number of educational tests with high-stakes consequences—such as promotion to the next grade level or graduating from high school—has increased. At the same time, the difficulty of the tests has also increased. In Texas, a Latina state legislator introduced and lobbied for a bill that would take such factors as teacher recommendations, portfolios of student work, and grades into account for the students—usually students of color—who failed such tests. The bill was defeated.

Using several types of ethnographic study (personal interviews, observations of the Legislature in action, news broadcasts, public documents from the Legislature and Texas Education Agency), Amanda Walker Johnson observed the struggle for the bill’s passage. Through recounting this experience, Objectifying Measures explores the relationship between the cultural production of scientific knowledge (of statistics in particular) and the often intuitive resistance to objectification of those adversely affected by the power of policies underwritten as "scientific."

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