Filling in the Blanks

Keena Arbuthnot

• 20 juni 2011
• 9781617354410

Samenvatting:

This book helps policymakers, researchers, academics and teachers understand standardized testing and the Black-White achievement gap. It provides background information, recent findings and theories explaining performance differences. The book offers new perspectives and recommendations to address stakeholder concerns and questions.

Filling in the Blanks is a book dedicated to helping policymakers, researchers, academics and teachers, better understand standardized testing and the Black-White achievement gap.

This book provides a wealth of background information, as well as the most recent findings, about testing and measurement concepts essential to understanding standardized tests. The book then reviews theories and research that has been conducted which explain the differences in performance between Black and White test takers on many standardized tests. Most notably, Filling in the Blanks presents several new theories that address why Black students do not perform as well as their White counterparts.

These theories present very novel and innovative perspectives to understanding these test performance differences. The book ends with a host of recommendations that are intended to address the concerns and questions of several stakeholder groups.