Twin Pandemics

<p>This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic and racial inequities affect the educational assessment of students either separately or in combination as the health crisis was viewed as a factor intersecting with and exacerbating existing racial inequities in educational systems.</p><p>The four empirical papers in this book attend to the challenges of implementing virtual standardized testing during the coronavirus pandemic the different educational and assessment experiences of diverse groups of school-age students and the reconsideration of traditional assessment approaches in response to mounting research evidence and growing concerns around enduring social and racial inequities faced by Black Latinx Asian Indigenous and other non-white citizens and communities. The four conceptual papers focus primarily on the ways in which assessment may contribute to systemic racism and offer potential solutions to move the educational assessment field forward. In totality the volume offers needed empirical evidence innovative methodological approaches and theoretical and substantive examinations of the effects of the twin pandemics.</p><p>Twin Pandemics will be a key resource for academics researchers and advanced students of Educational Assessment Education Psychometrics Educational Research Ethnic Studies Research Methods Sociology of Education and Psychology. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Educational Assessment.</p>