Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn
Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn
Diana C. Pullin, Boston College, Massachusetts
James Paul Gee, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Edward H. Haertel, Stanford University, California
Lauren Jones Young, The Spencer Foundation, Chicago
Providing all students with a fair opportunity to learn (OTL) is perhaps the most pressing issue facing U.S. education. 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.
- An unprecedented collaboration
- A socioculturally informed theory of learning and OTL
- A theory of assessment that draws on sociocultural and psychometric perspectives
Product details
April 2008Hardback
9780521880459
384 pages
233 × 153 × 29 mm
0.63kg
4 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Edward Haertel, Pamel Moss, Diana Pullin and James Gee
- 2. Assessment through the lens of 'opportunity to learn' Diana Pullin and Edward Haertel
- 3. A sociological perspective on opportunity to learn and assessment Hugh (Bud) Mehan
- 4. A sociocultural perspective on opportunity to learn James Paul Gee
- 5. Individualizing assessment and opportunity to learn: lessons from the education of students with disabilities Diana Pullin
- 6. Cultural modeling as opportunity to learn: making problem solving explicit in culturally robust classrooms and implications for assessment Carol D. Lee
- 7. Opportunities to learn in practice and identity James G. Greeno and Melissa S. Gresalfi
- 8. Game-like learning: an example of situation learning and implications for opportunity to learn James Paul Gee
- 9. Sociocultural implications for assessment I: classroom assessment Pamela A. Moss
- 10. Issues of structure and issues of scale in assessment from a situative/sociocultural perspective Robert J. Mislevy
- 11. Sociocultural implications for assessment II: professional learning, evaluation, and accountability Pamela A. Moss, Brian J. Girard and James G. Greeno
- 12. Assessment, equity, and opportunity to learn Diana Pullin.
