1. The Relevance of Culture in Evaluation and Assessment
Stafford Hood Arizona State University

2. Important Questions 
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3. To what extent do we understand the importance, role, and influence of culture in educational assessment and program evaluation?
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4. Should culture be a critical consideration in the development, validation, and usage of educational assessment instruments?
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5. Should culture be a critical consideration in the design, implementation, interpretation, and reporting of program evaluations when conducted in communities of color?
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6. My Intentions Today
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7. Discuss two maybe three of my projects
Describe significant events in my journey to understand assessment and evaluation in the context of culture
Discuss two maybe three of my projects
Have a meaningful dialogue as to how we might make evaluation and assessment more culturally responsive -
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8. Rationale for Culturally Responsive Assessment
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9. Allison Davis (1950) “Social Class Influences Upon Learning”
Dalton Miller- Jones (1989) Culture and Testing
Elise Estrin (1993) Alternative Assessment: Issues in Language, Culture, and Equity
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10. Influence of Scholarly Inquiries on Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
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11. Incorporates teachers’ adaptations of subject matter content to reflect the cultures of their students
Pedagogy that is responsive to students’ cultural strengths motivates and engages them to perform better in school
Culturally responsive pedagogy leads to higher achievement and better performance in assessment settings
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12. Building the Bridge Between Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Performance Based Assessment to Assess African American Students and Teachers: A Preliminary Discussion.
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13. Assessment in the Context of Culture and Pedagogy: A Collaborative Effort
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15. Why?
Purpose: Initiate dialogue that increases our understanding of culture’s relevance in standardized achievement tests, psychological assessments, instruction, and program evaluation
Issue: Relevance of other cultural orientations must be better understood if they are to meaningfully inform our research and work with culturally diverse populations in this new millennium
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16. Why?
Framework: Substantive dialogue necessarily requires the meaningful participation of educational and psychological researchers; school psychologists and counselors; community counselors; K-12 teachers; educational policy analysts; school administrators; district research and evaluation staff; and program evaluators from the public and private sectors.
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18. Effectiveness of Culture Specific Pedagogies and Development of Culturally Responsive Performance Assessments
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19. the development of culturally specific curricula and materials;
Examine the capabilities of web technology to utilize cultural context in:
the development of culturally specific curricula and materials;
applying culturally responsive pedagogies on-line in the instruction of African American middle and secondary school students; and
developing culturally specific performance assessments in mathematics, language arts, and social studies
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20. African American Distributed Learning Styles System (AADMLSS)
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21. Developed by Juan Gilbert, Department of Computer Science (Auburn University)
Computer-based, adaptive instruction environment for students of color
Provides individual student with access to several different instructional strategies that teach the same concepts
AADMLS use of web technologies is an ideal opportunity to include cultural context for developing culturally responsive pedagogical strategies and performance assessments
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23. Is cultural context important in conducting the evaluation of programs?
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24. Is evaluation racist?
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25. Thank You
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