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 Jiao, Hong, 1968- (Editor), Lissitz, Robert W. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2017]
SeriesMARCES book series.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806608744
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-895-1
Physical Description1 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.