Twin Pandemics: How a Global Health Crisis and Persistent Racial Injustices are Impacting Educational Assessment

This book examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial inequities on educational assessment, focusing on virtual standardized testing, diverse student experiences, and assessment approaches. It provides empirical evidence, innovative methodologies, and theoretical examinations of the effects of the twin pandemics on educational assessment.

Format: Hardback
Length: 116 pages
Publication date: 19 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The COVID-19 pandemic and racial inequities have had a profound impact on the educational assessment of students, both separately and in combination. The health crisis has been viewed as a factor intersecting with and exacerbating existing racial disparities in educational systems. This book examines these issues in four empirical papers that explore the challenges of implementing virtual standardized testing during the pandemic, the different educational and assessment experiences of diverse groups of school-age students, and the reconsideration of traditional assessment approaches in response to mounting research evidence and concerns around enduring social and racial inequities faced by Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous, and other non-white citizens and communities.

The four conceptual papers in the volume focus primarily on the ways in which assessment may contribute to systemic racism and offer potential solutions to move the educational assessment field forward. In totality, the volume provides needed empirical evidence, innovative methodological approaches, and theoretical and substantive examinations of the effects of the twin pandemics.

Twin Pandemics will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Educational Assessment, Education, Psychometrics, Educational Research, Ethnic Studies, Research Methods, Sociology of Education, and Psychology. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Educational Assessment.

Weight: 390g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032555270