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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moss, Pamela, 1952- editor.

Series:

Learning in doing.

Learning in doing : social, cognitive and computational perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational sociology--United States.

Educational sociology.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

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

Educational tests and measurements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 364 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Assessment, Equity, & Opportunity to Learn

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Providing all students with a fair opportunity to learn (OTL) is perhaps the most pressing issue facing U.S. education. 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 socio-cultural, 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. It offers educators, researchers, and policy analysts new to socio-cultural perspectives an engaging introduction to fresh ideas for conceptualizing, enhancing, and assessing OTL; encourages those who already draw on socio-cultural 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 H. Haertel, Pamela A. Moss, Diana C. Pullin, and James Paul Gee

Assessment through the lens of "opportunity to learn" / Diana C. Pullin and Edward H. 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 C. 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 C. Pullin.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18435-5

1-283-33005-9

1-139-13456-6

9786613330055

0-511-80215-3

1-139-12951-1

1-139-13332-2

0-511-50418-7

0-511-50632-5

OCLC:

437109986