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Gitomer, Drew H.; Iwatani, Emi – Educational Assessment, 2022
The education measurement community has centered the idea of test fairness in both theory and practice. Yet, racial justice advocates in education research and practice (the racial justice community) have consistently critiqued that assessments are hardly fair and play a critical and outsized role in contributing to racial and social inequities in…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Equal Education, Justice, Educational Assessment
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Niemi, David; Wang, Jia; Steinberg, Diane H.; Baker, Eva L.; Wang, Haiwen – Educational Assessment, 2007
Validation of assessments intended to improve instruction and learning should include evidence of instructional sensitivity. This study investigated the instructional sensitivity of a standards-based ninth-grade performance assessment that required students to write an essay about conflict in a literary work. Before administering the assessment,…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Performance Based Assessment, Performance Tests, Literary Criticism