Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn

Pamela A. Moss, Diana C. Pullin, James Paul Gee, Edward H. Haertel, Lauren Jones Young

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9780521880459
• eBook ISBN: 9780511500398
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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 socio-cultural, 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. It offers educators, researchers, and policy analysts new to socio-cultural perspectives an engaging introduction to fresh ideas for conceptualizing, enhancing, and assessing OTL; encourages those who already draw on socio-cultural resources to focus attention on OTL and assessment; and nurtures collaboration among members of discourse communities who have rarely engaged one another's work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Assessment Through the Lens of "Opportunity to Learn"
• 3 A Sociological Perspective on Opportunity to Learn and Assessment
• 4 ASociocultural Perspective on Opportunity to Learn
• 5 Individualizing Assessment and Opportunity to Learn
• 6 CulturalModeling as Opportunity to Learn
• 7 Opportunities to Learn in Practice and Identity
• 8 Game-Like Learning
• 9 Sociocultural Implications for Assessment I
• 10 Issues of Structure and Issues of Scale in Assessment from a Situative/Sociocultural Perspective
• 11 Sociocultural Implications for Assessment II
• 1 2 Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn
• Index