School-Based Assessment in Rural India: Representation and the Pursuit of Education for All

• In Event: Roundtable Session 38
  In Roundtable Session: Inclusion and Accommodation in Educational Assessment SIG Roundtable

Abstract

How to include all children in large-scale educational studies is a pressing concern. In particular, national and international assessments are increasingly a foundation for investigating the quality of education systems, but such assessments are typically conducted in classrooms and fail to accurately represent a country’s full range of children. Omitting certain types of children from educational studies and assessments can lead to skewed findings that routinely promote inaccuracies about learning levels and inflate educational quality. Analyzing the quantitative data from two studies in rural India that use both household-based and school-based methods, the issues with child representation in school-based assessments are examined.

Authors

• Melissa Goodnight, University of California - Los Angeles

• Savitri Bobde, ASER Centre