Volume 67, Number 3 (Summer 1998)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Assessment in the Context of Culture and Pedagogy
(Guest Editors: Stafford Hood, with JNE Editor-in-Chief Sylvia T. Johnson)
Editor's Comments
The Importance of Culture for Improving Assessment and Pedagogy 181
Sylvia T. Johnson
Introduction and Overview
Assessment in the Context of Culture and Pedagogy: A Collaborative
Effort, a Meaningful Goal 184
Stafford Hood
Articles
Culturally Responsive Performance-based Assessment:
Conceptual and Psychometric Considerations 187
Stafford Hood
How Teachers and University Faculty Perceive the Need for and Importance
of Professional Development in Performance-based Assessment 197
Sylvia T. Johnson, Sheila D. Thompson, Michael B.
Wallace, Gerunda B. Hughes, and JoAnne L. Manswell Butty
Addressing Cultural Context in the Development of Performance-based
Assessments and Computer-adaptive Testing: Preliminary Validity Considerations 211
Gwyneth M. Boodoo
Learning and Technology: Implications for Culturally Responsive
Instructional Activity and Models of Achievement 220
Richard P. Durán
Standardization of the Panga Munthu TestA Nonverbal Cognitive
Test Developed in Zambia 228
Ravinder Kathuria and Robert Serpell
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and the Assessment of Accomplished Teaching 242
Lloyd Bond
Teaching in Dangerous Times: Culturally Relevant Approaches
to Teacher Assessment 255
Gloria LadsonBillings
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Performance-based Assessment 268
Carol D. Lee
Cultural Diversity, Pedagogy, and Assessment Strategies 280
Serge Madhere
Cultural Responsive Assessment: Development Strategies and Validity Issues 296
Audrey L. Qualls
Defining Culture as a Dimension of Academic Achievement: Implications for Culturally Responsive Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment 302
Renée SmithMaddox
Book/Media Reviews
Social and Emotional Adjustment and Family Relations in
Ethnic Minority Families, edited by Ronald W. Taylor and
Margaret C. Wang 318
(Alison Harmon)
Resisting Discrimination: Affirmative Strategies for Principals
and Teachers, by Louis F. Miron 320
(Marian WhiteHood)
Collaborative Observation: Putting Classroom Instruction at the
Center of School Reform, by Karen H. Peters and Judith K. March 322
(Marian WhiteHood)
Mordecai, The Man and His Message: The Story of Mordecai
Wyatt Johnson, by Richard I. McKinney 324
(Joseph T. Durham)
Announcements 326
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Cover: Howard University students and faculty member pondering a collaborative project. Photograph courtesy of Creative Communication of America, Inc., Albany, New York.