FAIRNESS

PRINCIPLE OF HIGH QUALITY

ASSESMENT
PRINCIPLE: FAIRNESS

Show the example of Fairness

CONTENTS

FAIRNESS
A fair assessment provides all students with
an equal opportunity to demonstrate
achievement. The keys to fairness are as
follows:
FAIRNESS

Students have knowledge of Students are given equal

1 learning targets and assessment 2 opportunity to learn

Students possess the pre- Students are free from

3 requisite knowledge and skills 4 teacher stereotypes

Students are free from biased

5 assessment tasks and
procedures
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Students have knowledge of Learning Targets
and assessment

OBJECTIVE: is not to fool or trick students or to outguess them on the assessment. Rather, be very clear a
nd specific about the learning expectation

Public – students know the content and scoring criteria before the assessment and often before instructio
n

Way to help students is to give

· Assessment blueprint

· Sample questions

· Example from previous students work

Learning goal – mastering task, developing new skills and improving competence and understanding

Performance goal – perform to get a grade, recognition or reward and students are not as engaged
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Students possess the Pre-requisite knowledge

and skills

it is unfair to assess students on things that require prerequisite knowledge or skill that they do not possess

1. Understand students prerequisites that they demonstrate

2. Carefully check your own assessments to see the prerequisites that are required

Test-taking skills (TIPS)

1. Read directions carefully

2. Pacing

3. Initially bypassing difficult items

4. Checking answers

5. Eliminating wrong answers to multiple choice items ( rather than looking for the right answer)
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Students are given Equal Opportunity to

Learn

Given sufficient time and opportunities for all stu

dents to learn.
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Students are free from Teacher

Stereotypes

It is our responsibility to judge each student on his or he

r performance on assessment tasks, not how others who
share characteristics of the student perform
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Students are free from Biased Assessment

Tasks and Procedures

Two major forms of assessment bias

1. Offensiveness
2. Unfair penalization
Offensiveness – occurs if the content of the assessment offends, upsets, distresse
s, angers or otherwise creates negative effect for particular students or subgroup o
f students
Unfair penalization - is bias that creates a disadvantage for students because of co
ntent that makes it more difficult for students from same groups to perform compa
red to students from other groups
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