Böcker av Catherine S. Taylor

Anchored in a common-sense notion of validity, this book explains how current assessment practices are grounded in the language, experiences, and values of the dominant White culture. It presents a review of research on bias in classroom and large-scale assessments, and research on how students' level of engagement influences their performances.

Validity and Validation is an introduction to validity theory and to the methods used to obtain evidence for the validity of research and assessment results. The book briefly describes the philosophy of science roots of validity theory and how these philosophical perspectives influence concepts of internal and external validity in research methodology.