Decolonizing Educational Assessment Ontario Elementary Students and the EQAO /

• Main Author: Eizadirad, Ardavan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Assessment.; Child development.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Educational sociology.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.; Early Childhood Education.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Ethnicity in Education.
• Physical Description: XV, 255 p. 3 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030274627
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27462-7

This book examines the history of standardized testing in Ontario leading to the current context and its impact on racialized identities, particularly on Grade 3 students, parents, and educators. Using a theoretical argument supplemented with statistical trends, the author illuminates how EQAO tests are culturally and racially biased and promote a Eurocentric curriculum and way of life privileging white students and those from higher socio-economic status. This book spurs readers to further question the use of EQAO standardized testing and challenges us to consider alternative models which serve the needs of all students. .