Assessment Proposal-Bias (cultural and gender) in aptitude and standardized tests

Assessment Proposal-Bias (cultural and gender) in aptitude and standardized tests (Altshuler, 2005).

Topic for research

The topic which is being selected and proposed for the research to be conducted is “Bias (cultural and gender) in aptitude and standardized tests” (Altshuler, 2005).

Rationale for selecting the topic

Any research has some purpose(s) behind it which indicates the rationales owing to which the writer has selected the particular topic for research. Similarly there are rationales for selecting the topic of “Bias (cultural and gender) in aptitude and standardized tests” for the research to be conducted. The reasons include:

The biases that occur in different aptitude and standardized tests have been a focus of significant research. Contributing to the assessment research by carrying out profound additional research is the reason for selecting the topic.

The gender and cultural bias in the aptitude and standardized tests is an issue of growing concern since it impedes the effectiveness and measurability of these assessment tests.

The influence of the intervention of gender and cultural bias in the aptitude and standardized tests on the pupil is an area not researched extensively. One of the reasons is to focus a part of research on this aspect of the topic.

Three Characteristics/ issues of the Faculty

Any professional development plan is designed keeping in view the characteristics or issues of the audience to which the plan is addressed and designed. The audience in this scenario is the faculty or the teachers. The characteristics or issues being identified of the faculty for which the professional development plan will be designed includes: (Dr, 2006).

The faculty audience will be somewhere at the middle level of their career. They will neither be novice nor too experienced (Dr, 2006).

The faculty will be having a tendency to intervene some kinds of biases intentionally or unintentionally without having a proper understanding of the result of those interventions.

The faculty audience of the designed professional development plan will be actively engaged in different kinds of assessments in the district.

Three Characteristics/ needs of the Student

The aim of the professional development plan is to improve the assessment procedures and processes for the students. In addition to identifying the characteristics and/or the issues of the faculty for which the professional development plan will be designed, it is equally important to identify the characteristic and/or needs of the students to which that faculty audience will interact. The characteristics and / or needs of the students in the district served by the faculty include:

The students will be accustomed with different assessments and standardized tests in the district.

The students in the district will most probably have faced some degree of cultural and gender biases in the aptitude and standardized tests.

The students will be having a need to learn and discern about the ways in which such interventions could be avoided or dealt with.

Annotated Assessment Proposal-Bias (cultural and gender) in aptitude and standardized tests (Duckworth, 2006).

Assessment Proposal-Bias (cultural and gender) in aptitude and standardized tests (Duckworth, ...