Assessment, equity, and opportunity to learn / edited by Pamela A. Moss ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moss, Pamela, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational sociology--United States.

Educational sociology.

United States.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Educational tests and measurements--Social aspects--United States.

Educational tests and measurements.

Educational tests and measurements--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Providing all students with a fair opportunity to learn (OTL) is perhaps the most pressing issue facing the U.S. education system. Moving beyond conventional notions of OTL - as access to content, often content tested; access to resources; or access to instructional processes - the authors reconceptualize OTL in terms of interaction among learners and elements of their learning environments. Drawing on sociocultural, sociological, psychometric, and legal perspectives, this book provides historical critique, theory and principles, and concrete examples of practice through which learning, teaching, and assessment can be re-envisioned to support fair OTL for all students.

This book offers educators, researchers, and policy analysts new to sociocultural perspectives a readable and engaging introduction to fresh ideas for conceptualizing, enhancing, and assessing OTL; encourages those who already draw on sociocultural resources to focus attention on OTL and assessment; and nurtures collaboration among members of discourse communities who have rarely engaged one another's work.

Contents:

Preface / Fritz Moser and Lauren Jones Young

Introduction / Edward Haertel ... [et al.]

Assessment through the lens of "opportunity to learn" / Diana Pullin and Edward Haertel

A sociological perspective on opportunity to learn and assessment / Hugh Mehan

A sociocultural perspective on opportunity to learn / James Paul Gee

Individualizing assessment and opportunity to learn: lessons from the education of students with disabilities / Diana Pullin

Cultural modeling as opportunity to learn: making problem solving explicit in culturally robust classrooms and implications for assessment / Carol D. Lee

Opportunities to learn in practice and identity / James G. Greeno and Melissa S. Gresalfi

Game-like learning: an example of situated learning and implications for opportunity to learn / James Paul Gee

Sociocultural implications for assessment I: classroom assessment / Pamela A. Moss

Issues of structure and issues of scale in assessment from a situative/sociocultural perspective / Robert J. Mislevy

Sociocultural implications for assessment II: professional learning, evaluation, and accountability / Pamela A. Moss, Brian J. Girard, and James G. Greeno

Assessment, equity, and opportunity to learn / Diana Pullin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521880459

0521880459

9780521706599

0521706599

OCLC:

171049624

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