Filling in the blanks : understanding standardized testing and the black-white test score gap

Filling in the Blanks is a book dedicated to helping policymakers, researchers, academics and teachers, better understand standardized testing and the Black-White achievement gap. This book provides a wealth of background information, as well as the most recent findings, about testing and measuremen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Arbuthnot, Keena (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2011.
SeriesContemporary perspectives in race and ethnic relations.
Subjects
Educational tests and measurements > Social aspects > United States.
Test bias > United States.
Educational equalization > United States.
Education > Testing & Measurement.
Education: examinations and assessment.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616237
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-443-4
Physical Description1 online resource (176 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Testing and measurement concepts
  • Chapter 1. The test development process
  • Chapter 2. Validity and test fairness
  • Chapter 3. Test performance patterns
  • Chapter 4. Sources of the black-white achievement gap
  • Chapter 5. Differential item functioning
  • Part II. Group differences and the testing environment
  • Chapter 6. Test-wiseness
  • Chapter 7. Strategy formation and time management
  • Chapter 8. Cognitive processing
  • Chapter 9. Guidance for stakeholders. Final thoughts.

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