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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Issuing the Challenge
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Validity Standards and Principles on Equity in Educational Testing and Assessment
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The Implications of Content Standards and Assessments for the Economically Disadvantaged, Minorities and Women
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Finding One’s Voice: A Model for More Equitable Assessment
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Advances in Portfolio Assessment with Applications to Urban School Populations
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Fairness and Equity in Measuring Student Learning Using a Mathematics Performance Assessment: Results from the Quasar Project
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Improving the Equity and Validity of Assessment-based Information Systems
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Performance Assessment & Issues of Differential Impact: The British Experience- Lessons for America
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The Case for Affirmative Action in Higher Education
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Epilogue
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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. In response to such punitive testing, the papers included here explore a host of models and practices that are currently being piloted both in America and abroad as educators grapple with the effects the assessment is having on minority and disadvantaged students and school systems. In the process, outcomes of innovative portfolio and authentic assessments are weighed against important standards and principles of validity and consequences.
As the various authors probe the gap between African-American and White test scores, they raise important questions of resources, family background and educational opportunity. Beyond their value of their recommendations to educators, their papers help to identify causes of pupil deficiencies in ways that can be addressed by policymakers. To reinforce the emphasis on equity, several authors present a definitive defense of affirmative action as a critical counter-measure to the lack of fairness in school quality, family and social supports, and educational resources.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Measuring Up
Book Subtitle: Challenges Minorities Face in Educational Assessment
Editors: Arie L. Nettles, Michael T. Nettles
Series Title: Evaluation in Education and Human Services
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4399-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8401-4Published: 30 April 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5890-2Published: 05 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4399-8Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 266