Test fairness in the new generation of large-scale assessment
The new generation of tests is faced with new challenges. In the K-12 setting, the new learning targets are intended to assess higher-order thinking skills and prepare students to be ready for college and career and to keep American students competitive with their international peers. In addition, t...
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| Other Authors | , |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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Bingley, U.K :
Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc.,
[2017]
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| Series | MARCES book series.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781806608744 |
| DOI | 10.1108/978-1-68123-895-1 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Resolving the paradox of rich performance tasks / Robert Mislevy
- Chapter 2. The effect of item preknowledge on classification accuracy / Patrick Obregon and Ray Yan
- Chapter 3. Considerations in making next generation assessments accessible and fair / Linda Zimmerman and Paul C. Grudnitski
- Chapter 4. Redesigning the sat using principles of fairness and equity / Sherral Miller, Michael Walker, and Lynn Letukas
- Chapter 5. Analyzing the invariance of item parameters used to estimate trends in international large-scale assessments / Maria Elena Oliveri and Matthias von Davier
- Chapter 6. Culture in fair assessment practices / Edynn Sato
- Chapter 7. Using blinder-oaxaca decomposition to explore differential item functioning: Application to pisa 2009 reading / Daniel Bolt, Maritza Dowling, Yu-Shan Shih, and Wei-Yin Loh
- Chapter 8. Differential feature functioning in automated essay scoring / Mo Zhang, Neil Dorans, Chen Li, and Andre Rupp
- Chapter 9. Defining and challenging fairness in tests involving students with dyslexia: Key opportunities in test design and score interpretations / M. Christina Schneider, Karla Egan, and Brian Gong
- About the authors.