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This book is designed to help teachers create assessments sensitive to the diverse sociocultural factors that students bring to classrooms today. Attention is given to diversity in language and culture, as well as gender and ethnicity, as factors in the construction of assessments of student classroom learning. According to the authors of this website it is meant to help teachers- 1)Understand the essential characteristics of good assessment, 2) Uncover the strengths and cultural perspectives of diverse learners, 3) Create or select classroom assessments that meet high standards as well as support and reveal the learning of every child, 4) Increase awareness of potential sources of bias and inequity in assessments, and 5) Use strategies to improve inequitable ssessments

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