Assessment, equity, and opportunity to learn
By: edited by Pamela Moss ... [et al.].
Contributors: Moss, Pamela, 1952-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521880459; 9780521706599
Subjects: Educational sociology -- United States; Educational equalization -- United States; Educational tests and measurements -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: "Providing all students with a fair opportunity to learn (OTL) is perhaps the most pressing issue facing the U.S.education system. Moving beyond conventional notions of OTL - as access to content, often content tested; access to resources; or access to instructional processes - the authors reconceptualize OTL in terms of interaction among learners and elements of their learning environments. Drawing on sociocultural, sociological, psychometric, and legal perspectives, this book provides historical critique, theory and principles, and concrete examples of practice through which learning, teaching, and assessment can be re-envisioned to support fair OTL for all students." "This book offers educators, researchers, and policy analysts new to sociocultural perspectives a readable and engaging introduction to fresh ideas for conceptualizing, enhancing, and assessing OTL; encourages those who already draw on sociocultural resources to focus attention on OTL and assessment; and nurtures collaboration among members of discourse communities who have rarely engaged one another's work."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Lauren Young and Fritz Moser; title: Introduction / Edward Haertel, Pamela Moss, Diana Pullin, and James Gee; title: Assessment through the lens of "opportunity to learn" / Diana Pullin and Edward Haertel; title: A sociological perspective on opportunity to learn and assessment / Hugh (Bud) Mehan; title: A sociocultural perspective on opportunity to learn / James Paul Gee; title: Individualizing assessment and opportunity to learn: lessons from the education of students with disabilities / Diana Pullin; title: Cultural modeling as opportunity to learn: making problem solving explicit in culturally robust classrooms and implications for assessment / Carol D. Lee; title: Opportunities to learn in practice and identity / James G. Greeno and Melissa S. Gresalfi; title: Game-like learning: an example of situated learning and implications for opportunity to learn / James Paul Gee; title: Sociocultural implications for assessment I: classroom assessment / Pamela A. Moss; title: Issues of structure and issues of scale in assessment from a situative/sociocultural perspective / Robert J. Mislevy; title: Sociocultural implications for assessment II: professional learning, evaluation, and accountability / Pamela A. Moss, Brian J. Girard, and James G. Greeno; title: Assessment, equity, and opportunity to learn / Diana Pullin.