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Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education
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Index; 1946
(Hardcover)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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The new generation of tests is faced with new challenges. In the
K?12 setting, the new learning targets are intended to assess
higher?order thinking skills and prepare students to be ready for
college and career and to keep American students competitive with
their international peers. In addition, the new generation of state
tests requires the use of technology in item delivery and embedding
assessment in real?world, authentic, situations. It further
requires accurate assessment of students at all ability levels. One
of the most important questions is how to maintain test fairness in
the new assessments with technology innovative items and technology
delivered tests. In the traditional testing programs such as
licensure and certification tests and college admission tests, test
fairness has constantly been a key psychometric issue in test
development and this continues to be the case with the national
testing programs. As test fairness needs to be addressed throughout
the whole process of test development, experts from state,
admission, and licensure tests will address test fairness
challenges in the new generation assessment. The book chapters
clarify misconceptions of test fairness including the use of
admission test results in cohort comparison, the use of
international assessment results in trend evaluation, whether
standardization and fairness necessarily mean uniformity when
test?takers have different cultural backgrounds, and whether
standardization can insure fairness. More technically, chapters
also address issues related to how compromised items and test
fairness are related to classification decisions, how accessibility
in item development and accommodation could be mingled with
technology, how to assess special populations with dyslexia, using
Blinder?Oaxaca Decomposition for differential item functioning
detection, and differential feature functioning in automated
scoring. Overall, this book addresses test fairness issues in state
assessment, college admission testing, international assessment,
and licensure tests. Fairness is discussed in the context of
culture and special populations. Further, fairness related to
performance assessment and automated scoring is a focus as well.
This book provides a very good source of information related to
test fairness issues in test development in the new generation of
assessment where technology is highly involved.
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