Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn

Providing all students with a fair opportunity to learn (OTL) is perhaps the most pressing issue facing U.S. education. Moving beyond conventional notions of OTL - as access to content, often content tested; access to resources; or access to instructional processes - the authors reconceptualize OTL in terms of interaction among learners and elements of their learning environments. Drawing on socio-cultural, sociological, psychometric, and legal perspectives, this book provides historical critique, theory and principles, and concrete examples of practice through which learning, teaching, and assessment can be re-envisioned to support fair OTL for all students. It offers educators, researchers, and policy analysts new to socio-cultural perspectives an engaging introduction to fresh ideas for conceptualizing, enhancing, and assessing OTL; encourages those who already draw on socio-cultural resources to focus attention on OTL and assessment; and nurtures collaboration among members of discourse communities who have rarely engaged one another's work.

Introduction
Assessment through the lens of 'opportunity to learn'
A sociological perspective on opportunity to learn and assessment
A sociocultural perspective on opportunity to learn
Individualizing assessment and opportunity to learn: lessons from the education of students with disabilities
Cultural modeling as opportunity to learn: making problem solving explicit in culturally robust classrooms and implications for assessment
Opportunities to learn in practice and identity
Game-like learning: an example of situation learning and implications for opportunity to learn
Sociocultural implications for assessment I: classroom assessment
Issues of structure and issues of scale in assessment from a situative/sociocultural perspective
Sociocultural implications for assessment II: professional learning, evaluation, and accountability
Assessment, equity, and opportunity to learn
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Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn

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