World Yearbook of Education 2017 Assessment Inequalities

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education series examines the relationship between assessment systems and efforts to advance equity in education at a time of growing inequalities. It focuses on the political motives behind the expansion of an assessment industry, the associated expansion of an SEN industry and a growth in consequential accountability systems. Split into three key sections, the first part is concerned with the assessment industry, and considers the purpose and function of assessment in policy and politics and the political context in which particular assessment practices have emerged. PartII of the book, on assessing deviance, explores those assessment and identification practices that seek to classify different categories of learners, including children with Limited English Proficiency, with special needs and disabilities and with behavioural problems. The final part of the book considers the consequences of assessment and the possibility of fairer and more equitable alternatives, examining the production of inequalities within assessment in relation to race, class, gender and disability. Discussing in detail the complex historical intersections of assessment and educational equity with particular attention to the implications for marginalised populations of students and their families, this volume seeks to provide reframings and reconceptualisations of assessment and identification by offering new insights into economic and cultural trends influencing them. Co-edited by two internationally renowned scholars, Julie Allan and Alfredo J.Artiles, World Yearbook of Education 2017 will be a valuable resource for researchers, graduates and policy makers who are interested in the economic trends of global education assessment.

1 Introduction Part 1 The Assessment Industry 2 The Power of Numbers 3 Special Educational Needs, Disability and School Accountability 4 The Promise and Perils of Response to Intervention to Address Disproportionality in Special Education 5 Quality and Equity in the Era of National Testing Part 2 Assessing deviance 6 Risking Diagnosis? Race, Class and Gender in the Psychopathologization of Behaviour Disorder 7 Dis/ability as White Property 8 The Right to Exclude 9 The Hunt for Disability Part 3 The consequences of assessment and the possibility of fairer and more equitable alternatives 10 Untangling the Racialization of Disabilities 11 Examining Assessment for Students with Special Education Needs in Aotearoa New Zealand 12 The Refinement of the Idea of Consequential Validity within an Alternative Framework for Responsible Test Design 13 Culturally Responsive Experimental Intervention Studies Afterword Index

Julie Allan is is Professor of Equity and Inclusion and Head of the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Borås in Sweden. Alfredo J. Artiles is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and the Ryan C. Harris Professor of Special Education at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, USA.