Equity and Excellence in Educational Testing and Assessment
5 TABLE I Average Reading Proficiency and Achievement Levels by RacelEthnicity Grades 4 8 and 12 1992 Reading Assessment Percentage of Student At or Above Percentage of Average Proficient Basic Below Basic Advanced I Students Proficiency I Grade 4 White 71 226 6 31 68 J2 69 16 193 0 Black 7 31 Hispa...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1995, 1995
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1995 |
| Series: | Evaluation in Education and Human Services
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Nation’s 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