Fairness in Assessment

Fairness in assessment is one important factor we as future educators can not forget about. Assessment has different factors such as, validity and reliability. As the book states, validity is defined as the soundness of your interpretations and uses of students' assessment results and reliability is defined as the consistency of assessment results over replications. Both of these are key factors when doing fair assessment. When correcting a test we should not just think of a number grade but, to what were the stronger and weaker of students knowledge. Allowing students to take similar test at different times in the day will always only help increase the knowledge and help the student be confident with the knowledge. Rubric are a great way of giving the students great feed. Rubrics my be time consuming but, in the end you and your student will have a better understanding on what went right and what went wrong. Also, rubrics give you evidence on why a child's assessment is the way it is. Fairness in assessment is not bias. When assessment is taking place as educators we have to remember not to be bias to ethnicity, socioeconomic, and life style.