ABSTRACT

This study draws on qualitative data to analyse the effect of the national Year 5 test culture on test actors in selected Slovak schools. The test culture is presented in the context of disciplinary power, while the method of analysis follows Foucault’s later recommendation to focus more on the ‘new economy of power relations’. Such an analysis is more empirically oriented and takes account of, and even emerges from, practical forms of resistance. It allows for a better understanding of the complexity and diversity of social responsiveness to the normative test culture in the school and the relativization of the one-sided power-oriented perception of the effect of testing in school settings. The study presents a critical view of across-the-board perceptions of national large-scale testing that ignore its specific normative setting and how it operates within the cultures themselves.

摘要

本研究利用定性数据分析国家 5 年级考试文化对选定斯洛伐克学校考试演员的影响。考试文化是在规训权力的语境中呈现的，而分析方法则遵循了福柯后来的建议，即更多地关注“权力关系的新经济”。这种分析更注重经验，考虑到实际的抵抗形式，甚至从中产生。它有助于更​​好地理解社会对学校规范考试文化的反应的复杂性和多样性，以及对学校环境中考试效果的片面权力导向看法的相对化。