ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on the perspectives of minority/racialized students in urban high schools. It is based on findings of interviews with 85 students in six secondary schools in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada, and in Melbourne, Australia, during 2016–2019. While there has been increasing attention to closing the racial achievement gap and some minority students’ underachievement in education, there are limited studies that centre the voices of students and their experiences with provincial and nationally mandated testing. This paper is not an investigation into minority students’ achievement; rather it seeks to understand how minority students perceive and experience this new form of test-based accountability. Grounding the analysis within theories of policy sociology and neoliberal accountability, this paper concludes that current policies of standardized testing have catalysed further inequities and segregation of students based on their ‘race’ and social class.

摘要

本文重点关注城市高中少数民族/种族化学生的观点。它基于 2016-2019 年对加拿大多伦多和温哥华以及澳大利亚墨尔本的 6 所中学的 85 名学生的访谈结果。虽然人们越来越关注缩小种族成绩差距和一些少数民族学生在教育方面的成绩不佳，但以学生的声音和他们在省级和国家强制性考试中的经验为中心的研究却很有限。本文不是对少数民族学生成绩的调查；相反，它试图了解少数民族学生如何看待和体验这种基于测试的新形式的问责制。以政策社会学和新自由主义问责理论为基础进行分析，