Assessment for Equity and Inclusion: Embracing All Our Children

by A. Lin Goodwin (Editor)

Overview

How students are assessed can determine not only the quality, type, and degree of education they receive, but has long-term consequences for their future. Assessment by standardized testing often labels poor and minority children in ways that exclude them from opportunities, while failing to measure their true potential. Assessment for Equity and Inclusion confronts the debate between standardized testing and alternative assessment methods, locating strategies of assessment by which students are included rather than excluded.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415914727
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/25/1997
Series:	Transforming Teaching
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

the Preservices Program in Childhood Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Table of Contents

1 George F. Madaus, Anastasia E. Raczek and Marguerite M. Clarke — The Historical and Policy Foundations of the Assessment Movement 2 Celia Genishi — Assessing Against the Grain: A Conceptual Framework for Alternative Assessments 3 Linda Darling-Hammond and Beverly Falk — Supporting Teaching and Learning for all Students: Policies for Authentic Assessment Systems 4 Stephen C. Ellwood, IV — The Power of Possibilities 5 Yvonne Smith, A. Lin Goodwin — The Democratic, Child-Centered Classroom: Provisioning for a Vision 6 Paula Hajar — Awakening to the Mathematician Within: One Teacher's Story 7 Julie Heiman Savitch, Leslie Anne Serling — I Wouldn't Know I was Smart if I Didn't Come to This Class 8 Margaret Borrego Brainard — Assessment as a Way of Seeing 9 Sabrian Hope King — Toward the Development of an Improved Urban Teaching and Evaluation Process 10 Nancy Dubetz, Steve Turley, Martha Erickson — Dilemmas of Assessment and Evaluation in Preservice Teacher Education 11 A. Lin Goodwing, Maritza B. Macdonald — Educating the Rainbow: Authentic Assessment and Authentic Practice for Diverse Classrooms 12 Asa G. Hilliard III — Language, Culture, and the Assessment of African American Children 13 Beatrice S. Fennimore — Moving the Mountain: Assessment and Advocacy for Children 14 Ana Mara Villegas — Assessing Teacher Performance in a Diverse Society 15 Valerie Ooka Pang — Assessing the Dialogue of Teacher in a Multicultural Classroom: A Difficult Struggle 16 Jennifer J. Robinson — Parents as Allies for Alternative Assessment 17 Vito Perrone — Toward an Education of Consequence: Connecting Assessment Teaching, and Learning

Editorial Reviews

"This book confronts the debate between standardized testing and alternative assessment methods, suggesting strategies of assessment that could be employed to include, rather than exclude, students in order to create a diverse community of learners The Education Digest."
"...Assessment for Equity and Inclusion is a thought-provoking and wide-ranging work that should be of value to educators everywkhere who are concerned about fairness and equity in educational assessment Bilingual Education and Bilingualism."
"This book confronts the debate between standardized testing and alternative assessment methods, suggesting strategies of assessment that could be employed to include, rather than exclude students in order to create a diverse community of learners The Education Digest."
"...Assessment for Equity and Inclusion is a thought-provoking and wide-ranging work that should be of value to educators everywhere who are concerned about fairness and equity in educational assessment Bilingual Education and Bilingualism."

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