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Key Concerns about Fairness in the Testing of English Language Learners and Proposed Solutions: Research Contributions

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Research Meeting:  Fairness in Educational and Psychological Tests: Issues and Solutions
October 12-13, 2017

Hosted by the Buros Center for Testing with conference grant funding from American Educational Research Association (AERA)
      
LENGTH: 15 minutes

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Guillermo Solano-Flores, PhD. is Professor of Education at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education.  Dr. Solano-Flores received his doctoral degree from the University of California.  He previously taught for the University of Colorado in Boulder and was employed as a Principal Research Scientist for the American Institutes for Research.  He specializes in educational assessment and the linguistic and cultural issues that are relevant to both international test comparisons and the testing of cultural and linguistic minorities. Dr. Solano-Flores has conducted research on the development, translation, localization, and review of science and mathematics tests. He has been principal investigator in several National Science Foundation-funded projects that have examined the intersection of psychometrics, semiotics, and linguistics in testing. He is the author of the theory of test translation error, which addresses testing across cultures and languages. Also, he has investigated the use of generalizability theory—a psychometric theory of measurement error—in the testing of English language learners and indigenous populations. He has advised Latin American countries on the development of national assessment systems as well as countries in Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Northern Africa on the adaptation and translation of performance tasks into multiple languages. Current research projects examine academic language and testing, formative assessment practices for culturally-diverse science classrooms, and the design and use of illustrations in international test comparisons and in the testing of English language learners.
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TITLE: Key Concerns about Fairness in the Testing of English Language Learners and Proposed Solutions: Research Contributions LENGTH: 15 minutes BIO: Guillermo Solano-Flores, PhD. is Professor of Education at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. Dr. Solano-Flores received his doctoral degree from the University of California. He previously taught for the University of Colorado in Boulder and was employed as a Principal Research Scientist for the American Institutes for Research. He specializes in educational assessment and the linguistic and cultural issues that are relevant to both international test comparisons and the testing of cultural and linguistic minorities. Dr. Solano-Flores has conducted research on the development, translation, localization, and review of science and mathematics tests. He has been principal investigator in several National Science Foundation-funded projects that have examined the intersection of psychometrics, semiotics, and linguistics in testing. He is the author of the theory of test translation error, which addresses testing across cultures and languages. Also, he has investigated the use of generalizability theory—a psychometric theory of measurement error—in the testing of English language learners and indigenous populations. He has advised Latin American countries on the development of national assessment systems as well as countries in Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Northern Africa on the adaptation and translation of performance tasks into multiple languages. Current research projects examine academic language and testing, formative assessment practices for culturally-diverse science classrooms, and the design and use of illustrations in international test comparisons and in the testing of English language learners.