Measuring Up

Challenges Minorities Face in Educational Assessment

AvArie L. Nettles,Michael T. Nettles

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

With America fervently espousing both national and state testing, the differential performance by race and social class raises the specter of tests as barriers to life milestones such as promotion, graduation, and college admissions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-11-05
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:441 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Evaluation in Education and Human Services
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789401058902

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Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Issuing the Challenge.- 2. Validity Standards and Principles on Equity in Educational Testing and Assessment.- 3. The Implications of Content Standards and Assessments for the Economically Disadvantaged, Minorities and Women.- 4. Finding One’s Voice: A Model for More Equitable Assessment.- 5. Advances in Portfolio Assessment with Applications to Urban School Populations.- 6. Fairness and Equity in Measuring Student Learning Using a Mathematics Performance Assessment: Results from the Quasar Project.- 7. Improving the Equity and Validity of Assessment-based Information Systems.- 8. Performance Assessment and Issues of Differential Impact: The British Experience -Lessons for America.- 9. The Case for Affirmative Action in Higher Education.- 1:Tests as Barriers to Access.- 2: Educational Standards and Alternatives in Educational Reform.- 3: Merit and Opportunity: Testing and Higher Education at the Vortex.- 4: If You Want Equity, You Need Standards.- 5: Response to Validity Standards and Principles on Equity (Robert Linn).- 6: At Risk and Unready? African American Children and Early Childhood Education.