ABSTRACT

In a justice-oriented antiracist assessment process, attention to the disruption of white supremacy must occur at every stage – from construct articulation to score reporting. An important step in the assessment development process is the item review stage often referred to as Bias/Fairness and Sensitivity Review. I argue that typical approaches to the item and test review process miss the opportunity to actively disrupt white supremacist and racist logics – in other words, to be anti-racist. Using Critical Race and Critical Whiteness Theory as a frame, this paper challenges the field to re-envision the purpose and outcomes of the bias and sensitivity review process by (a) identifying common themes and/or recommendations found in bias and sensitivity guidelines that, even if unintentionally, center whiteness and/or the paradigm of white dominant culture; and (b) recommending a set of bias and sensitivity principles that promote an antiracist approach to assessment design, specifically item review.

摘要

在以正义为导向的反种族主义评估过程中，从构建表述到分数报告的每个阶段都必须关注对白人至上主义的破坏。评估开发过程中的一个重要步骤是项目审核阶段，通常称为偏见/公平性和敏感性审核。我认为，该项目和测试审查过程的典型方法错过了积极破坏白人至上主义和种族主义逻辑的机会——换句话说，就是反种族主义。本文以批判种族和批判白度理论为框架，挑战该领域重新设想偏见和敏感性审查过程的目的和结果，方法是：（a）确定偏见和敏感性指南中发现的共同主题和/或建议，即使不经意间，中心白人和/或白人主导文化的范式；(b) 建议一套偏见和敏感性原则，促进在评估设计（特别是项目审查）中采用反种族主义方法。