Our validity looks like justice. Does yours?
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Date
2023
Authors
Randall, Jennifer
Poe, Mya
Slomp, David
Oliveri, Maria E.
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Publisher
Sage
Abstract
Educational assessments, from kindergarden to 12th grade (K-12) to licensure, have a long, well-documented history of oppression and marginalization. In this paper, we (the authors) ask the field of educational assessment/measurement to actively disrupt the White supremacist and racist logics that fuel this marginalization and re-orient itself toward assessment justice. We describe how a justice-oriented, antiracist validity (JAV) approach to validation processes can support assessment justice efforts, specifically with respect to language assessment. Relying on antiracist principles and critical quantitative methodologies, a JAV approach proposes a set of critical questions to consider when gathering validity evidence, with potential utility for language testers.
Description
Open access article. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED) applies
Keywords
Antiracist validity , Justice-oriented assessment , Justice-oriented measurement , Justice-oriented validity , Language assessment , Validity , White supremacist , Educational assessment , Assessment design
Citation
Randall, J., Poe, M., Slomp, D., & Oliveri, M. E. (2023). Our validity looks like justice. Does yours? Language Testing, 41(1), 203-219. https://doi.org/10.1177/02655322231202947