Social Media, Political Mobilization, and High-Stakes Testing

McKeon, Robin T.; Gitomer, Drew H.

doi:10.3389/feduc.2019.00055

Cited by 15 publications

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“…However, in Figure 2, it can be seen that the presentation of the use of Twitter from year to year continues to increase. The high intensity of social media users has an impact on the emergence of grassroots political and social change movements which ultimately provide a new political theory movement (McKeon & Gitomer, 2019). In addition to the fast-moving information on the role of activists and political buzzers who play behind a series of information giving, they also play a significant role in generating this collective movement.…”

Section: Data From the Ministry Of Communication Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Democracy in Digital Era through Social Media and News Online

2020

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The research aimed to explain the pattern of social communication on the issue of rejection of the PLTU Batang development policy. It used data on Twitter accounts involved in the rejection of the PLTU Batang development policy. In analyzing existing data, qualitative methods and social analysis networks were used. To see social networks in the rejection of the PLTU Batang development policy, the research used the NodeXL application to find out the patterns of social communication networks in #TolakPLTUBatang. From the results, it can be seen that in the dissemination of social networking information, the @praditya_wibby account is the most central account in the social network and has a strong influence on the social network. The @praditya_wibby account has a role in moving the community through Twitter to make a critical social movement. This means that in the current digital era, democracy enters a new form through the movement of public opinion delivery through social media. Besides, by encouraging the role of online news, the distribution of information becomes faster to form new perceptions of an issue. This is evident from the correlation network where the @praditya_wibby account has correlations with several compass online media accounts, tirto.id, okezonenews, vice, antaranews, BBCIndonesia, and CNN Indonesia.

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New Democracy in Digital Era through Social Media and News Online

2020

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“…These findings presented in this study tell a much more complicated story-student demographics, school governance, and geography all coincide to create dynamics of a complicated and varying opting out movement in the state of Colorado. Casalaspi, 2021;Chen et al, 2021;McLoud, 2019;Paladino, 2020;Paquin Morel, 2019Rivera-McCutchen, 2021;Wang, 2017Wang, , 2021, Florida (Currin et al, 2019(Currin et al, , 2021Schroeder et al, 2018Schroeder et al, , 2020aSchroeder et al, , 2020bSchroeder et al, , 2021, New Jersey (Abraham et al, 2018;McKeon & Gitomer, 2019;Supovitz, 2021;Supovitz et al, 2016), Ohio (Evans et al, 2021), Oregon (Sundstrom, 2018), and the Catalan region of Spain (Collet-Sabé & Ball, 2020).…”

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Opting Out of Standardized Tests at the Secondary Level—A Geographic Analysis of Colorado

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Although much of the national opt-out movement is parent driven, the Colorado opt-out movement involved considerable efforts from high school students. This study explores the geography of the Colorado opt-out movement among secondary students, drawing upon social movements theory. We utilize the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) as a measure of opt-out behavior in Colorado between 2016–2019. We also examine school-level demographic data. We first applied ordinary least squares regression and then utilize multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) to examine the relationships between school-level demographics and opting out behavior for 11th-grade standardized assessments in Colorado. This analysis demonstrates the importance of geography in enacting social networks surrounding the opt-out movement in the state of Colorado. This study offers insight into opting out in the unique context of youth activism in Colorado, with a specific focus on geographical analysis.

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“…As Berkovich and Avigur-Eshel (2019) demonstrate, in Israel, as in many other countries, digital social media are a major venue for debates and protests related to education policy issues. Previous research on the U.S. opt-out movement used Facebook groups as sites for data collection (e.g., McKeon & Gitomer, 2019;Rubin et al, 2020). We therefore extended our analysis by searching this social media website.…”

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Parents’ resistance to standardized testing in a highly centralized system: The emergence of an opt-out movement in Israel

Sabag

Feniger

2022

EPAA

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This paper discusses the emergence of an opt-out movement in Israel led by parent associations at local and national levels. The protest targeted the use of a national standardized test, the Meitzav. Analyzing media coverage of this movement and informed by the theoretical arguments of the Advocacy Coalition Framework, the study suggests that by forming a coalition with the Teachers’ Union, parents proclaimed their right to a role in education policymaking in a highly centralized system. The coalition was successful in that it influenced the Ministry of Education to postpone the tests and form a special committee to reevaluate the national assessment policy. The Israeli case enhances our understanding of opt-out movements in different educational and institutional contexts.

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Social Media, Political Mobilization, and High-Stakes Testing

Cited by 15 publications

References 23 publications

New Democracy in Digital Era through Social Media and News Online

New Democracy in Digital Era through Social Media and News Online

Opting Out of Standardized Tests at the Secondary Level—A Geographic Analysis of Colorado

Parents’ resistance to standardized testing in a highly centralized system: The emergence of an opt-out movement in Israel

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