Assessment For Equity And Inclusion: Embracing All Our Children; Author: Goodwin, A. Lin; Paperback

Author: Goodwin, A. Lin
Transforming Teaching; Paperback
352 pages
Published: July 1997
Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415914736

Assessment by standardized testing often labels poor and minority children in ways that exclude them from opportunities, while failing to measure their true potential. Assessment for Equityand Inclusion confronts the debate between standardized testing and alternative assessment methods, locating strategies of assessment by which students are included rather than excluded.This collection initiates a substantive discussion on assessment, presenting multiple possibilities of innovative practice from various theoretical, historical, practical, and critical perspectives After describing the historical and political framework of assessment and its alternatives, the contributors then move on to describe their own successful strategies They also address broader conflicts in curriculThis text confronts the debate between standardized testing and alternative assessment methods, locating strategies of assessment by which students are included rather than excluded.