Equity and Formative Assessment in Higher Education

Dorit Alt, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Education and Instruction in the Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel. She specializes in the field of instruction, learning, and assessment in the 21st century. Her research endeavors center on promoting lifelong learning skills via formal and non-formal learning environments. Among her numerous publications in leading scientific journals are several books such as Lifelong Citizenship: Lifelong Learning as a Lever for Moral and Democratic Values (Brill and Sense Publishers); The Challenges of Academic Incivility: Social-Emotional Competencies and Redesign of Learning Environments as Remedies (Springer). Prof. Alt has also led an ERASMUS+ joint project ASSET (assessment tools for higher education learning environment 2017–2020). Prof. Raichel, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Education and Instruction in the Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel. Her main interests cover issues of the Israeli educational system; teacher identity; the figure of the “good educator” and his/her training and transfer of educational ideas from the western world to Hebrew education; social education of immigrants: multicultural teacher training; and vocational education in Israel. Prof. Raichel is an active member of the Israeli Association of Historians of Education and of the Association of Professional Development Schools.

• Chapter 1  Advancing culturally responsive assessment.- Chapter 2 Peer Assessment in diverse classrooms: Tensions and opportunities.- Chapter 3 Assessing collaborative learning in a culturally diverse classroom.- Chapter 4 Self-Assessment to evaluate digital literacy skills in a multicultural classroom.- Chapter 5 Reflective journal writing and multicultural diversity: Challenges and benefits to teaching and learning.- Chapter 6 Using Digital Badges in a diverse classroom.- Chapter 7 Using concept map as an assessment tool in a diverse learning environment.- Chapter 8 Culturally responsive feedback.- Chapter 9 Culturally responsive culture of assessment.- Epilogue.