World Yearbook of Education 2017 (eBook, ePUB)

Assessment Inequalities
Redaktion: Allan, Julie; Artiles, Alfredo J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education series examines the relationship between assessment systems and efforts to advance equity in education at a time of growing inequalities. It focuses on the political motives behind the expansion of an assessment industry, the associated expansion of an SEN industry and a growth in consequential accountability systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315517353
• Artikelnr.: 47382092

Autorenporträt

Julie Allan is is Professor of Equity and Inclusion and Head of the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Borås in Sweden. Alfredo J. Artiles is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and the Ryan C. Harris Professor of Special Education at Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
Part 1 The Assessment Industry
2 The Power of Numbers
3 Special Educational Needs, Disability and School Accountability
4 The Promise and Perils of Response to Intervention to Address
Disproportionality in Special Education
5 Quality and Equity in the Era of National Testing
Part 2 Assessing deviance
6 Risking Diagnosis? Race, Class and Gender in the Psychopathologization of
Behaviour Disorder
7 Dis/ability as White Property
8 The Right to Exclude
9 The Hunt for Disability
Part 3 The consequences of assessment and the possibility of fairer and
more equitable alternatives
10 Untangling the Racialization of Disabilities
11 Examining Assessment for Students with Special Education
Needs in Aotearoa New Zealand
12 The Refinement of the Idea of Consequential Validity within
an Alternative Framework for Responsible Test Design
13 Culturally Responsive Experimental Intervention Studies
Afterword
Index