Cultivating Equitable Education: Issues of Evaluation and Assessment

Session Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Education aims at building systems that realize the full potential of learners addressing educational inequalities and building systems that enhance equity and justice. Issues of evaluation and assessment are at the heart of these challenges. In the past, decision bias and unfair judgement have caused and strengthened disparities based on for example gender, race or socio-economic status. Research on evaluation and assessment plays a critical role in moving towards equity. Whilst this has prompted institutions and educational systems to re-think their curriculum, less attention has been paid to forms of assessment and the ways in which they contribute to the reproduction of inequalities in education.

Sub Unit

• Division H - Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools

Chairs

• Kristin Vanlommel, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht

• Chris Brown, University of Southampton

Papers

• Intelligent Accountability: Leadership, Organization, and Professional Responsibility - Sølvi Lillejord, University of Bergen

• Leaders' Triple Role for Sustainable Data Use With Data Teams - Elske van den Boom-Muilenburg, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht

• Decolonizing Assessment and Evaluation: Questions for Equitable Education - Oakleigh Welply, Durham University

Discussant

• Kim Schildkamp, Universiteit Twente