Assessment Bias How to Banish It, Mastering Assessment: A Self-Service System for Educators, Pamphlet 4

by Popham, W. James

• ISBN13: 9780132734905
• ISBN10: 0132734907
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-05
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

MASTERING ASSESSMENT BOOKLETS " Appropriate and Inappropriate Tests for Evaluating Schools " Assessing Students#x19; Affect " Assessing Students with Disabilities " Assessment Bias: How to Banish It " Classroom Evidence of Successful Teaching " College Entrance Examinations: The SAT and the ACT " Constructed-Response Tests: Building and Bettering " How Testing Can Help Teaching " Interpreting the Results of Large-Scale Assessments " Portfolio Assessment and Performance Testing " Reliability: What Is It and Is It Necessary? " Selected-Response Tests: Building and Bettering " The Role of Rubrics in Testing andTeaching " Test Preparation: Sensible or Sordid? " Validity: Assessment#x19;s Cornerstone

Author Biography

W. James Popham is a nationally recognized expert on educational testing. For 30 years he taught courses at UCLA in instructional methods for prospective teachers, and courses in evaluation and measurement. He has also authored over 25 books in the fields of curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Table of Contents

The Nature of Assessment Bias

            Offensiveness

            Unfair Penalization

            Inference Distortion

Disparate Impact: A Clue, Not a Verdict

Three Common Sources of Assessment Bias

            Racial/Ethnic Bias

            Gender Bias

            Socioeconomic Bias, Assessment’s Closeted Skeleton

Bias Detection

            Judgmental Approaches

            Empirical Approaches