Table of Contents

1 George F. Madaus, Anastasia E. Raczek and Marguerite M. Clarke -- The Historical and Policy Foundations of the Assessment Movement 2 Celia Genishi -- Assessing Against the Grain: A Conceptual Framework for Alternative Assessments 3 Linda Darling-Hammond and Beverly Falk -- Supporting Teaching and Learning for all Students: Policies for Authentic Assessment Systems 4 Stephen C. Ellwood, IV -- The Power of Possibilities 5 Yvonne Smith, A. Lin Goodwin -- The Democratic, Child-Centered Classroom: Provisioning for a Vision 6 Paula Hajar -- Awakening to the Mathematician Within: One Teacher's Story 7 Julie Heiman Savitch, Leslie Anne Serling -- I Wouldn't Know I was Smart if I Didn't Come to This Class 8 Margaret Borrego Brainard -- Assessment as a Way of Seeing 9 Sabrian Hope King -- Toward the Development of an Improved Urban Teaching and Evaluation Process 10 Nancy Dubetz, Steve Turley, Martha Erickson -- Dilemmas of Assessment and Evaluation in Preservice Teacher Education 11 A. Lin Goodwing, Maritza B. Macdonald -- Educating the Rainbow: Authentic Assessment and Authentic Practice for Diverse Classrooms 12 Asa G. Hilliard III -- Language, Culture, and the Assessment of African American Children 13 Beatrice S. Fennimore -- Moving the Mountain: Assessment and Advocacy for Children 14 Ana Mara Villegas -- Assessing Teacher Performance in a Diverse Society 15 Valerie Ooka Pang -- Assessing the Dialogue of Teacher in a Multicultural Classroom: A Difficult Struggle 16 Jennifer J. Robinson -- Parents as Allies for Alternative Assessment 17 Vito Perrone -- Toward an Education of Consequence: Connecting Assessment Teaching, and Learning

About the Author

the Preservices Program in Childhood Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Reviews

"This book confronts the debate between standardized testing and alternative assessment methods, suggesting strategies of assessment that could be employed to include, rather than exclude, students in order to create a diverse community of learners The Education Digest."
"...Assessment for Equity and Inclusion is a thought-provoking and wide-ranging work that should be of value to educators everywkhere who are concerned about fairness and equity in educational assessment BilingualEducation and Bilingualism."
"This book confronts the debate between standardized testing and alternative assessment methods, suggesting strategies of assessment that could be employed to include, rather than exclude students in order to create a diverse community of learners The Education Digest."
"...Assessment for Equity and Inclusion is a thought-provoking and wide-ranging work that should be of value to educators everywhere who are concerned about fairness and equity in educational assessment BilingualEducation and Bilingualism."