Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Fairness Standards, Issues, and Solutions Across Professional Fields in Education and Psychology

Abstract

This idea for the book that this chapter introduces originated at a research meeting supported by an AERA grant to discuss issues and solutions regarding fairness in testing according to the 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & National Council on Measurement in Education, 2014) across different professional disciplines in education and psychology. The Standards is a critical guide for testing practice, but the emerging importance of fairness considerations calls for a greater engagement with the concept and the contexts in which fairness in testing issues can occur. The book attempts to provide a broad sampling of perspectives from researchers and practitioners in different professional fields to identify how future research, practice, and future editions of the Standards should be shaped to conceptualize fairness and address fairness issues as they occur in context.

Keywords: testing standards; test fairness; testing practice; psychometric research; educational and psychological measurement