Isabel Nisbet, Stuart D D Shaw

Is Assessment Fair? (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Fairness in educational assessment has become a major talking point and allegations that assessments are unfair are commonplace on social media and in the press. But what does fairness mean in practice and how can we evaluate it?

This book offers a timely and necessary investigation, exploring the concept through the lenses of: measurement theory, social justice, the law and philosophy in order to put forward a template for fairness in educational assessment.

Drawing on international examples from the UK, US, Australia and South East Asia, this book offers a commentary on fairness that is highly relevant to the changing context of assessment today.

If you have a professional or academic interest in educational assessment, are a education policymakers or are just interested in working to make assessment fair, then this book is for you!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529736618
• Artikelnr.: 58674356

Autorenporträt

Isabel's academic training was in philosophy, with tutors including R.S. Downie and R.M. Hare. Her professional career has been in branches of government and regulation in the UK. She held senior posts in organisations regulating the medical profession and postgraduate medical education, followed by a leading role in the regulation of educational assessments and qualifications. She was the founding CEO of Ofqual, the statutory regulator of qualifications in England. From 2011-2014 she worked for Cambridge Assessment in South East Asia, based in Singapore. Isabel serves on the Board of Qualifications Wales and is a governor of two universities in England. She has also been appointed to two committees advising Government on ethical issues. She is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introducing fairness
Chapter 2: Fair assessment viewed through the lenses of measurement theory
Chapter 3: Fair assessment viewed through the lenses of professional standards, guidelines and procedures
Chapter 4: Fair assessment viewed through the lenses of the law
Chapter 5: Fair assessment viewed through the lenses of philosophy
Chapter 6: Fair assessment viewed through the lenses of social justice
Chapter 7: Conclusions, challenges and a template for fairness

Rezensionen

This is a wide-ranging from Aristotle to Big Data view of fairness in educational assessment, that covers usually neglected areas such as philosophical and juridical underpinnings, while carefully explaining technical aspects in accessible terms. Scholarly and thorough, it never loses sight of the fact that fairness affects real people teachers, parents, employers, higher education and most importantly students who sometimes have only one shot at doing well in an increasingly narrow assessment system.

Dr Tina Isaacs