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.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. My Spiritual Journey as an Educator
• 2. Elementary Standardized Testing on the Bubble: To Eliminate or Maintain?
• 3. Royal Commission on Learning and the Birth of EQAO and the Accountability Movement in Ontario
• 4. Inequality of Opportunity: Experiences of Racialized and Minoritized Students
• 5. Symbiotic Relationship Between Curriculum, Tyler Rationale, and EQAO Standardized Testing
• 6. EQAO Results and School Rankings
• 7. Understanding the Research Approach and the Data
• 8. Invisible Scars and Traumatizing Effects of Standardized Testing: Voices of Grade 3 Children, Parents, and Educators
• 9. External Assessment as Stereotyping
• 10. Decolonizing Educational Assessment Models. .