Fairness Issues in Educational Assessment

Hossein Karami (University of Tehran, Iran)

$90.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Routledge
03 January 2019

Research methods: general; Examinations & assessment

Fairness and ethicality have been at the center of the debates on the appropriate use of educational tests since the 1960s. Particularly in high-stakes contexts, it is clear that fairness should be a major concern to both the test developers, and to those being tested, given that the fairness of a test is so intertwined with its validity.

Fairness Issues in Educational Assessment aims to shed more light on the issue and bring to sight some of the ways in which test fairness can be addressed. The contributions, written by some of the most prominent figures in educational assessment, address both theoretical and practical aspects of test fairness. The wealth of ideas presented here will be valuable to novice researchers and help them appreciate both the joy and complexity of conducting fair educational measurement.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Research and Evaluation.

Edited by: Hossein Karami (University of Tehran Iran)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138391468
ISBN 10: 1138391468
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 03 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction 1. Ongoing issues in test fairness 2. A ""conditional"" sense of fairness in assessment 3. The unfairness of equal treatment: objectivity in L2 testing and dynamic assessment 4. The quest for fairness in language testing 5. Decisions that make a difference in detecting differential item functioning 6. Identifying differential item functioning in multi-stage computer adaptive testing 7. Assessing statistical aspects of test fairness with structural equation modelling 8. The formalization of fairness: issues in testing for measurement invariance using subtest scores 9. Generalizability theory and the fair and valid assessment of linguistic minorities"

Hossein Karami is a Lecturer in the English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, at the University of Tehran, Iran. His areas of interest include validity and fairness, especially in the context of language testing. His work has appeared in various journals including Educational Research and Evaluation, RELC Journal, Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, TESOL Journal, and Asia-Pacific Education Review.