Every assessment procedure or instrument embodies a sense of telos, producing data that locate people along the researcher's assumed developmental path¶
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q1 i? Assessment procedures carry the researcher's sense of an appropriate developmental end point, so what counts as evidence of development depends on assumptions about telos. → Peter Smagorinsky 1995
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Peter Smagorinsky 1995¶
Peter Smagorinsky. (1995). The Social Construction of Data: Methodological Problems of Investigating Learning in the Zone of Proximal Development. Review of Educational Research, 65(3), 191-212. https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543065003191
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Theoretical argument in the Telos and Evidence section: the author argues that "any assessment procedure or instrument carries with it a sense of telos," illustrated by McCarthy and Gerring's account of the DSM revision's biomedical model. No data are reported; the support is the argument.
"Any assessment procedure or instrument carries with it a sense of telos; that is, it embodies the researcher's sense of an appropriate developmental path for people to follow, and produces data that identify people's progress or achievement according to the direction of that path."
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Related Claims¶
- Perfect AI execution cannot remove four limits: accuracy does not settle end-setting, safety does not confer legitimacy, detection does not secure integrity, and outputs do not replace participation — related
- Assessment instruments are never neutral but always mediational, embedding a culturally biased telos — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
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Every assessment procedure or instrument embodies a sense of telos, producing data that locate people along the researcher's assumed developmental path |
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Every assessment procedure or instrument embodies a sense of telos, producing data that locate people along the researcher's assumed developmental path |
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