Systemic Racism and Educational Measurement: Confronting Injustice in Testing, Assessment, and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781032128818 / Angielski

Michael Russell

Opis

Systemic Racism and Educational Measurement provides a theoretical and historical reckoning with racism and oppression produced through educational measurement and research methodology. As scholars and professionals in the testing, measurement, and assessment of human learning and performance work to exorcise race sciences, white supremacy, and other injustices from the field’s research and practice, new insights are needed into their root causes. This book is the first to posit that the theory of the White Racial Frame was and continues to be applied to the foundations, process, dissemination, and use of educational measurement, leading to instruments, findings, and decisions that perpetuate the racialized social structure of our nation. Even among well-meaning stakeholders who aim to improve humanity and address inequities, the White Racial Frame shapes the field’s research questions, the methods utilized, the data valued, the interpretations made, and the language used throughout. Students and scholars of educational measurement, testing, and psychometrics will find invaluable clarifications of terminology, concepts, and theories integral to understanding systemic barriers in the field; explications of educational measurement’s core purposes and its influence by the White Racial Frame; and a series of alternate frames, theories, and epistemologies intended to guide educational measurement toward antiracism and increased fairness.

Spis treści

Preface
Acknowledgements
Key Terms and Definitions
Introduction
Part I: Race, Racism, and the White Racial Frame
Chapter 1: The Origins of Race
Chapter 2: Molding Race in the United States
Chapter 3: The Systemic Structure of Racism
Chapter 4: The White Racial Frame
Part II: The White Racial Frame and the Development of Educational Measurement
Chapter 5: Heredity and Family Traits
Chapter 6: The Birth of Tests of Mental Ability
Chapter 7: The Rise of Educational Testing and Test Bias
Chapter 8: The Rise of Statistics in Educational Measurement
Chapter 9: Educational Measurement as Apparatus for Systemic Racism
Section III: Alternate Lenses for Educational Measurement
Chapter 10: Critical Theory
Chapter 11: Critical Race Theory and QuantCrit
Chapter 12: Intersectionality Theory
Chapter 13: Educational Measurement and the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Chapter 14: Forging a Path Toward Anti-Racism in Educational Measurement
Index

O autorze

Michael Russell is Professor of Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College, USA. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Committees for several state assessment and accountability programs.