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  title info:
    title: Equity and Excellence in Educational Testing and Assessment
  name:
    name part: Nettles, Michael T.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Nettles, Arie L.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 377 pages)
  abstract: The reader of this book will gain a greater understanding of contemporary equity issues in educational testing and assessment and to learn to examine these issues in the context of educational reform. The book focuses on the following four issues: (1) the growing prominence that educational testing and assessment are playing in American education; (2) the effect that current testing and assessment policies and practices are having upon minority and disadvantaged students and school systems; (3) the new and innovative approaches to testing and assessment and their prospects for promoting educational equity, educational reform and accountability; and (4) the actions that need to be taken in order to achieve equity in testing and assessment in the nation's schools. The goal is to identify and begin addressing some of the disadvantages faced by many Americans in their pursuit of high-quality education and training. The book explores some of the factors that contribute to the gaps in student achievement along racial and social class lines, and offers ideas for improving the measurement of America's diverse population of students. Some of the chapters focus on how the field of educational testing is changing to include new types of assessment practices and policies, and new types of testing and assessment instruments. Innovations in educational testing and assessment include student exhibitions, portfolios, performance tasks, and essay writing, all of which are being advanced both for in-classroom and in-school use as well as for purposes of public accountability. Some of the public policy innovations include the following: awarding federal funding and recognition based upon student performance on tests and assessments; national government approval of the assessments that states, school districts, and schools use; and national approval and sanctioning of the standards that will be measured by educational tests and assessments.
  note: edited by Michael T. Nettles, Arie L. Nettles.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational tests and measurements
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational tests and measurements
  classification: LC5225.A75
  classification: LB2822.75
  classification: 371.26
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Evaluation in education and human services ; 40
  identifier: 9789401106337 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401106339 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789401042765
  identifier: 9401042764
  identifier: 9401106339
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  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422210356.4
    record identifier: in00003569826
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng