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Assessment, equity, and opportunity to learn.


9780521880459

Assessment, equity, and opportunity to learn.

Ed. by Pamela Pamela

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See : Virtuousness
 Moss et al.

Cambridge U. Pr.

2008

364 pages

$85.00

Hardcover

LC191

This collection of 12 articles inspired by discussions sponsored by the Spencer Foundation, presents the views of both supporters and opponents of standardized testing A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent" [1]  as a part of teaching and learning. Looking though the lens of how such testing relates to the concept of the "opportunity to learn" (OTL OTL Office of Technology Licensing
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), contributors use approaches ranging from the sociological to the sociocultural so·ci·o·cul·tur·al  
adj.
Of or involving both social and cultural factors.



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 in such topics as the lessons learned from individual assessment of students with disabilities, inclusion of problem solving problem solving

Process involved in finding a solution to a problem. Many animals routinely solve problems of locomotion, food finding, and shelter through trial and error.
 skills and the resulting implications for assessment, assessment and relative OTL in game-like learning, issues of structure and scale in assessment, and professional learning and its relationship to assessment and accountability.

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