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Peer reviewedHadaway, Nancy L.; Marek-Schroer, Marilyn – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1994
Examines problems inherent in the overuse of testing as a way to identify giftedness, especially with respect to assessing the culturally diverse. Use of portfolios is suggested as an alternative procedure that can provide a more equitable and culturally fair assessment of the culturally and linguistically diverse child. (SLD)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Cultural Differences, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textHerman, Joan L.; And Others – 1994
A preliminary investigation has been made of some claims regarding alternative assessment. Using the California Learning Assessment System (CLAS)--Middle Grades Mathematics Performance Assessment as a platform, the study examined how alternative assessment operates in actual practice. Early findings are presented in the following areas: (1)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Cultural Differences, Educational Assessment
Dais, Teresa A. – 1993
This review analyzes traditional standardized assessment practices to determine if they recognize cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic, and disability differences. It then examines the extent to which these assessment practices are being used in transition for decision-making and predicting post-school outcomes. The review begins with a historical…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Culture Fair Tests, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
PDF pending restorationCreagh, Cathy; McHaney, Tamara – 1997
This report describes a project to develop more effective types of assessment in high school classes. The targeted population was high school students in two different middle-class communities in the northern suburbs of Chicago (Illinois). One site in a very stable, homogeneous community, predominantly white, contains 1,155 students. The other…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cultural Differences, Educational Research, High School Students
PDF pending restorationEstrin, Elise Trumbull – 1993
Alternative assessments, also called authentic or performance assessments, have first the common notion of a meaningful performance or product. The use of such alternatives with students belonging to nondominant language and cultural groups is of interest because of the hope that this type of assessment can show what these students can really do…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Context Effect, Cultural Differences, Educational Assessment
Silver, Edward A.; Lane, Suzanne – 1993
Issues of educational equity and quality are explored in the context of the Quantitative Understanding: Amplifying Student Achievement and Reasoning (QUASAR) project, a national educational reform project aimed at fostering and studying the development and implementation of enhanced mathematics instructional programs for students attending middle…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
