ANet: Elevating Student Voice: Justice-Oriented Assessment Content

Joined 2023


Partners

What are we building?

  • Justice-oriented assessment items that:

    • Explicitly counter conventional negative stereotypes about marginalized groups

    • Highlight oppressive sociopolitical inequities and encourage reflection, understanding, and action

    • Offer students multiple ways to demonstrate learning and engage with content

  • A body of justice-oriented assessment content that is responsive to student identity, culture, and community

What are we learning?

  • Whether student engagement, motivation, and performance improve when assessments are designed with a justice-oriented lens

  • How students interact with and respond to culturally relevant and empowering assessment content

Products

  • A bank of justice-oriented content with accompanying assessments

  • Research findings on the impact of justice oriented assessment design on learning and engagement

  • Design principles for equity-centered formative and summative assessments


ANet project team slide summarizing key insights on math assessment and student choice, highlighting empowerment, motivation, and relevance.
ANet project team slide showing student quotes in colorful thought bubbles about how choice in math problems supports confidence.
ANet project team slide with Figma-based student reflections using emojis and images to express feelings about assessments.
ANet project team slide displaying bar charts of student responses on assessment topics and desired representation.
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