Title | Equity and Excellence in Educational Testing and Assessment [electronic resource] / edited by Michael T. Nettles, Arie L. Nettles |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1995 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0633-7 |
Descript | XV, 377 p. online resource |
I Identifying Equity Challenges in the Context of Ducational Testing and Assessment Reform -- 1. Introduction: The Pursuit of Equity in Educational Testing and Assessment -- 2. A Technological and Historical Consideration of Equity Issues Associated with Proposals to Change Our Nationโs Testing Policy -- 3. Diversity, Assessment, and Equity in Educational Reform -- 4. Equity Issues in Performance-Based Assessment -- 5. Some Prerequisites for the Establishment of Equitable, Inclusive Multicultural Assessment Systems -- II Reforms in Assessment and Testing: Are New Practices Better and More Equitable? -- 6. Achieving Equity: Counting on the Classroom -- 7. Equity and Validity Considerations in the Design and Implemention of a Mathematics Performance Assessment: The Experience of the QUASAR Project -- 8. Performance-Based Assessments: Contributor or Detractor to Equity? -- 9. Equity and Excellence in Group-Administered and Performance-Based Assessments -- III Impact of Assessment Reforms at Three Levels: The Classroom, the State, and the Nation -- 10. Using New Forms of Assessment to Assist in Achieving Student Equity: Experiences of the CCSSO State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards -- 11. The Effect of Expectations on Achieving Equity in State-Wide Testing: Lessons from Massachusetts -- 12. Toward National Standards and Testing: The Educational Equity Imperative -- 13. Equity Issues in Teacher Assessment -- 14. Visions of Equity in National Assessment