Opportunities or constraints? Where is the space for culturally responsive poetry teaching within high-stakes testing regimes at 16+ in Aotearoa New Zealand and England?

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Opportunities or constraints? Where is the space for culturally responsive poetry teaching within high-stakes testing regimes at 16+ in Aotearoa New Zealand and England?

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This paper argues that recent changes to two national highstakes tests for English – the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) in Aoteaora New Zealand and the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) in England – have shifted the assessment emphasis further away from poetry than previously and have significantly constrained the defined space for the genre within examination specifications at 16+. In investigating the impact of these assessment changes, the paper cons...

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02 Sep, 2013

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Sue Dymoke

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Assessment / culturally responsive teaching / high-stakes testing / literature / poetry / poetry pedagogy / Uncategorized

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