Social Justice & Educational Assessment
The purpose for this assignment is to examine the role of social justice within educational assessment. As you prepare for this assignment, reflect on your current role at your school or in your district and the testing procedures/processes in your school, district, & state. Then think about the assessment changes and or practices that have occurred over the past years in your professional setting and how they have affected you, your students, parents, community, etc.
Directions & Guidelines:
For this assignment, you are to identify and discuss a social justice issue in educational assessment that is relevant to you, your community, your school, your district, your state, or your students.
This is a scholarly academic paper, which will require you to research topics of social justice in education, more specifically when it comes to assessments.
Provided links to give you are start on social justice issues:
https://neaedjustice.org/social-justice-issues/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/creating-classrooms-for-social-justice-tabitha-dellangelo (Links to an external site.)
http://www.wwu.edu/teachinghandbook/course_design/social_justice_toolkit.shtml (Links to an external site.)
http://www.racialequitytools.org/plan/issues/education (Links to an external site.)
You are to use the APA 6th ed style and guidelines.
The paper should conclude with a reflective component and should clearly show analysis of your scholarly readings and personal experiences.
Your paper should be a minimum of three typed pages (refer to the expectations of written works/assignments in the syllabus to avoid losing points)
You should have at least three references provided, and two of them must be from a peer reviewed source.
Your sources should be adequately referenced and cited throughout your paper.
