Cultural Validity in Assessment: A Guide for Educators
by Del Rosario Basterra Maria (9780415999809)

What is assessment and how is it a cultural practice? How does failure to account for cultural variation and culture-based assumptions jeopardize validity? What is cultural validity in assessment? This guide for practicing and prospective teachers looks at these major issues in language testing and provides knowledge, techniques, and strategies to design and implement valid assessments for use in classrooms.

Cultural Validity in Assessment

• Explores the role of language in assessment, not only as it relates to English language learners but to all students.



• Examines every step in the assessment process, from assessment selection and design to administration, scoring, and score interpretation with a view to identifying ways of maximizing fairness and validity for all students.



• Offers examples and field-based work to illustrate constructive practices and policies that promise to yield more authentic accountability than present practices provide

Given the significance of testing in education today, cultural validity in assessment is an urgent issue facing educators. This book is essential reading for addressing this important, relevant topic.

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