A Culturally Responsive Classroom Assessment Framework: The Intersections of Equity, Pedagogy, and Sociocultural Assessment

• In Event: Classroom Assessment: Exploring Fairness and Equity

Abstract

Equity is a common value undergirding educational systems. Culturally responsive education (CRE) is a mental model or mindset that can be applied to help close Equity gaps. There are many different frameworks for thinking about and applying CRE to classroom assessment design and evaluation. In this paper, we build off Stembridge’s (2020) six themes of CRE to present a conceptual framework for the design and/or evaluation of classroom formative and summative assessments that follow from culturally responsive teaching and learning experiences. We discuss each of the six themes in relation to classroom assessment and then conclude with a Culturally Responsive Classroom Assessment Inventory developed to evaluate the extent to which these six themes are present in any given classroom assessment.

Author

• Carla Evans, Center for Assessment