Equity and Excellence in Educational Testing and Assessment

I Identifying Equity Challenges in the Context of Ducational Testing and Assessment Reform.- 1. Introduction: The Pursuit of Equity in Educational Testing and Assessment.- 2. A Technological and Historical Consideration of Equity Issues Associated with Proposals to Change Our Nation's Testing Policy.- 3. Diversity, Assessment, and Equity in Educational Reform.- 4. Equity Issues in Performance-Based Assessment.- 5. Some Prerequisites for the Establishment of Equitable, Inclusive Multicultural Assessment Systems.- II Reforms in Assessment and Testing: Are New Practices Better and More Equitable?.- 6. Achieving Equity: Counting on the Classroom.- 7. Equity and Validity Considerations in the Design and Implemention of a Mathematics Performance Assessment: The Experience of the QUASAR Project.- 8. Performance-Based Assessments: Contributor or Detractor to Equity?.- 9. Equity and Excellence in Group-Administered and Performance-Based Assessments.- III Impact of Assessment Reforms at Three Levels: The Classroom, the State, and the Nation.- 10. Using New Forms of Assessment to Assist in Achieving Student Equity: Experiences of the CCSSO State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards.- 11. The Effect of Expectations on Achieving Equity in State-Wide Testing: Lessons from Massachusetts.- 12. Toward National Standards and Testing: The Educational Equity Imperative.- 13. Equity Issues in Teacher Assessment.- 14. Visions of Equity in National Assessment.