Summary
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Fairness in educational assessment has become a major talking point and allegations that assessments are unfair are commonplace on social media and in the press. But what does fairness mean in practice and how can we evaluate it? This book offers a timely and necessary investigation, exploring the concept through the lenses of: measurement theory, social justice, the law and philosophy in order to put forward a template for fairness in educational assessment. Drawing on international examples from the UK, US, Australia and South East Asia, this book offers a commentary on fairness that is highly relevant to the changing context of assessment today. This book will be of interest to anyone with a professional or academic interest in educational assessment, to education policymakers and to all who are working to make assessment fair.
Fair assessment viewed through the lenses of measurement theory
Fair assessment viewed through the lenses of measurement theory
‘The most useful definition of fairness for test developers is the extent to which the inferences made on the basis of test scores are valid for different groups of test takers.’ (ETS, ETS Standards for Quality and Fairness, 2015, p. 19)
‘Absolute fairness to every examinee is impossible to attain, if for no other reasons than the facts that tests have imperfect reliability and that validity in any particular context is a matter of degree. But neither is any alternative selection or evaluation mechanism perfectly fair.’ (AERA et al., Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, 1999, p. 73)
Introduction
In this chapter, we consider the views of fairness in ...
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