Testing and Cheating: Technologies of Power and Resistance
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| Title: | Testing and Cheating: Technologies of Power and Resistance |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Doerr, Katherine (ORCID |
| Source: | Cultural Studies of Science Education. Dec 2021 16(4):1315-1334. |
| Availability: | Springer. Available from: Springer Nature. One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, NY 10004. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-460-1700; e-mail: customerservice@springernature.com; Web site: https://link.springer.com/ |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 20 |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Testing, Cheating, Ethics, Moral Values, Science Education, Physical Sciences, Resistance (Psychology), Personal Autonomy, Power Structure, College Students |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11422-021-10048-6 |
| ISSN: | 1871-1502 |
| Abstract: | Cheating, a form of academic dishonesty, is commonly regarded as a problem in science education. This inquiry theorizes cheating not as a moral failing on the part of students or a lack of surveillance by teachers but rather as a resistance to testing. Ethnographic data from a university physical science department, analyzed with Michel Foucault's theory of governmentality, suggests testing as a technique of disciplinary power to produce normalized cases, schooled subjects of a certain type. The resistance of cheating is an assertion of agency within inequitable power relations. As such, cheating and testing are mutually constituting. This inquiry aims to trouble the notion that testing is educationally beneficial by discussing how testing may be placing students in morally compromised positions and teachers in morally complicit positions. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2021 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1319866 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Cheating, a form of academic dishonesty, is commonly regarded as a problem in science education. This inquiry theorizes cheating not as a moral failing on the part of students or a lack of surveillance by teachers but rather as a resistance to testing. Ethnographic data from a university physical science department, analyzed with Michel Foucault's theory of governmentality, suggests testing as a technique of disciplinary power to produce normalized cases, schooled subjects of a certain type. The resistance of cheating is an assertion of agency within inequitable power relations. As such, cheating and testing are mutually constituting. This inquiry aims to trouble the notion that testing is educationally beneficial by discussing how testing may be placing students in morally compromised positions and teachers in morally complicit positions. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-1502 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11422-021-10048-6 |
