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The Promise of Assessments That Advance Social Justice: An Indigenous Example
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Kukea Shultz, Pohai; Englert, Kerry – Applied Measurement in Education, 2023
In the United States, systemic racism against people of color was brought to the forefront of discourse throughout 2020, and highlighted the on-going inequities faced by intentionally marginalized groups in policing, health and education. No community of color is immune from these inequities, and the activism in 2020 and the consequences of the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Indigenous Populations, Minority Groups, Racism
Enacting a Process for Developing Culturally Relevant Classroom Assessments
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O'Dwyer, Eowyn P.; Sparks, Jesse R.; Nabors Oláh, Leslie – Applied Measurement in Education, 2023
A critical aspect of the development of culturally relevant classroom assessments is the design of tasks that affirm students' racial and ethnic identities and community cultural practices. This paper describes the process we followed to build a shared understanding of what culturally relevant assessments are, to pursue ways of bringing more…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Test Construction, Educational Research
Applying a Culturally Responsive Pedagogical Framework to Design and Evaluate Classroom Performance-Based Assessments in Hawai'i
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Evans, Carla M. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2023
Previous writings focus on why centering assessment design around students' cultural, social, and/or linguistic diversity is important and how performance-based assessment can support such aims. This article extends previous work by describing how a culturally responsive classroom assessment framework was created from a culturally responsive…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Student Evaluation, Design, Performance Based Assessment
Accountability Is Overdue: Testing the Academic Achievement of Limited English Proficient Students.
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Porter, Rosalie P. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2000
Describes approaches taken in Texas to bring about academic accountability for students of limited English proficiency through evaluating and reporting annually on their progress in English-language literacy and their learning of school subjects and by documenting the growth in successful performance on state tests by this special population. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests