Now what?
- Know assessment bias exists- become sensitive to it.
- Use absence-of-bias as one of the criteria that you evaluate your own and others' assessments with.
- Have a reliable colleague evaluate your assessments.
- Consider using assessment accommodations with students with disabilities and ELL students.
Credits
Edvantia's Channel. "Assessing Students with Special Needs." Online video clip. Youtube. Youtube, 26 Jan. 2009. Web. 16 Sept. 2014.
Popham, James W. "Popham- Assessment bias." mp4. Youtube. Youtube, 26 Apr. 2011. Web. 14 Sept. 2014.
Popham, James W. Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know. 7th ed. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc. 2014. Print.
Pictures:
Popham, James W. "Popham- Assessment bias." mp4. Youtube. Youtube, 26 Apr. 2011. Web. 14 Sept. 2014.
Popham, James W. Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know. 7th ed. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc. 2014. Print.
Pictures:
- http://edusum.edublogs.org/files/2011/03/Testing_Cartoon-230mfyi.jpg
- http://www.educationnews.org/k-12-schools/movement-against-standardized-testing-gaining-strength/
- http://www.weebly.com/uploads/3/9/1/5/39151633/628714982.jpg
