Cultural Validity in Assessment Addressing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity [Paperback]

What is assessment and how is it a cultural practice? How does failure to account for linguistic and cultural variation among students jeopardize assessment validity? What is required to achievecultural validityin assessment? This resource for practicing and prospective teachers  as well as others concerned with fair and valid assessment  provides a thorough grounding in relevant theory, research, and practice. The book lays out criteria for culturally valid assessment and recommends specific strategies that teachers can use to design and implement culturally valid classroom assessments.

Assessment plays a powerful role in the process of education in the US and has a disproportionately negative impact on students who do not come from mainstream, middle-class backgrounds. Given the significance of testing in education today, cultural validity in assessment is an urgent issue facing educators. This book is essential reading for addressing this important, relevant topic.

Foreword

Eugene Garc?a

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I

Cultural Validity in AssessmentBasic Concepts

1. Assessing the Cultural Validity of Assessment Practices: An Introduction-Guillermo Solano-Flores

2. The Role of Language in Assessment- Elise Trumbull and Guillermo Solano-Flores

PART II

Assessing Students of Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Backgrounds

3. Assessing English Language Learners: Critical Issues- Jamal Abedi

4. Cognition, Culture, Lanlƒ(