It has been pointed out that when comparatively reconsidering Thai and world educational history, an area of concern is the blueprint of our education reform, which is enormously influenced by world education policy and discourse. This is not wrong – if it is based on policy learning, not policy borrowing! Furthermore, no policy is either perfect or totally awful. Throughout the last three decades, the world model of education includes combinations of contradictory, complementary, and the overlapping of several ideal types until nowadays it entails a hybrid of market ideals, community ideals, and state-welfare ideals.
Actually, the debate about standardised tests is not completely new. For several decades, Western thinkers stressed that external examinations were dangerous due to their ability to reduce intrinsic value of intellectual skills. They tested active ideas and required learners to restructure what they knew in some way.
At present, cross-border education as mentioned by Unesco in 2006 also requires benchmarks and standards in order to properly evaluate unfamiliar foreign qualifications and to counteract low-quality providers of education. Regrettably, the rationality of efficiency, calculation, predictability, and control which is termed “McDonaldisation” as stated by George Ritzer in 1996, resulted in an over-emphasis on quantifiable indicators such as grades and rankings.
It has been pointed out that when comparatively reconsidering Thai and world educational history, an area of concern is the blueprint of our education reform, which is enormously influenced by world education policy and discourse. This is not wrong – if it is based on policy learning, not policy borrowing! Furthermore, no policy is either perfect or totally awful. Throughout the last three decades, the world model of education includes combinations of contradictory, complementary, and the overlapping of several ideal types until nowadays it entails a hybrid of market ideals, community ideals, and state-welfare ideals.
Actually, the debate about standardised tests is not completely new. For several decades, Western thinkers stressed that external examinations were dangerous due to their ability to reduce intrinsic value of intellectual skills. They tested active ideas and required learners to restructure what they knew in some way.
At present, cross-border education as mentioned by Unesco in 2006 also requires benchmarks and standards in order to properly evaluate unfamiliar foreign qualifications and to counteract low-quality providers of education. Regrettably, the rationality of efficiency, calculation, predictability, and control which is termed “McDonaldisation” as stated by George Ritzer in 1996, resulted in an over-emphasis on quantifiable indicators such as grades and rankings.
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