Fairness Issues in Educational Assessment

Author:   Hossein Karami (University of Tehran, Iran)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138391468


Pages:   172
Publication Date:   03 January 2019
Format:   Paperback
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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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Author:   Hossein Karami (University of Tehran, Iran)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138391468


ISBN 10:   1138391468
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   03 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"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"

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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.

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