Introduction Hossein Karami and Magdalena M.C. Mok
1. Ongoing issues in test fairness Gregory Camilli
2. A "conditional" sense of fairness in assessment Robert J. Mislevy, Geneva Haertel, Britte H. Cheng, Liliana Ructtinger, Angela DeBarger, Elizabeth Murray, David Rose, Jenna Gravel, Alexis M. Colker, Daisy Rutstein and Terry Vendlinski
3. The unfairness of equal treatment: objectivity in L2 testing and dynamic assessment James P. Lantolf and Matthew E. Poehner
4. The quest for fairness in language testing Hossein Karami
5. Decisions that make a difference in detecting differential item functioning Stephen G. Sireci and Joseph A. Rios
6. Identifying differential item functioning in multi-stage computer adaptive testing Mark J. Gierl, Hollis Lai and Johnson Li
7. Assessing statistical aspects of test fairness with structural equation modelling Rex B. Kline
8. The formalization of fairness: issues in testing for measurement invariance using subtest scores Dylan Molenaar and Denny Borsboom
9. Generalizability theory and the fair and valid assessment of linguistic minorities Guillermo Solano-Flores and Min Li
Biography
Hossein Karami is a Lecturer in the English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, at the University of Tehran, Iran. His areas of interest include validity and fairness, especially in the context of language testing. His work has appeared in various journals including Educational Research and Evaluation, RELC Journal, Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, TESOL Journal, and Asia-Pacific Education Review.
