Fairness Issues in Educational Assessment (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Karami, Hossein

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Fairness and ethicality have been at the center of the debates on the appropriate use of educational tests since the 1960s. Particularly in high-stakes contexts, it is clear that fairness should be a major concern to both the test developers, and to those being tested, given that the fairness of a test is so intertwined with its validity.

Fairness Issues in Educational Assessment aims to shed more light on the issue and bring to sight some of the ways in which test fairness can be addressed. The contributions, written by some of the most prominent figures in educational assessment, address both theoretical and practical aspects of test fairness. The wealth of ideas presented here will be valuable to novice researchers and help them appreciate both the joy and complexity of conducting fair educational measurement.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Research and Evaluation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317236016
• Artikelnr.: 54129158

Autorenporträt

Hossein Karami is a Lecturer in the English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, at the University of Tehran, Iran. His areas of interest include validity and fairness, especially in the context of language testing. His work has appeared in various journals including Educational Research and Evaluation, RELC Journal, Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, TESOL Journal, and Asia-Pacific Education Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Ongoing issues in test fairness 2. A "conditional" sense of
fairness in assessment 3. The unfairness of equal treatment: objectivity in
L2 testing and dynamic assessment 4. The quest for fairness in language
testing 5. Decisions that make a difference in detecting differential item
functioning 6. Identifying differential item functioning in multi-stage
computer adaptive testing 7. Assessing statistical aspects of test fairness
with structural equation modelling 8. The formalization of fairness: issues
in testing for measurement invariance using subtest scores 9.
Generalizability theory and the fair and valid assessment of linguistic
minorities