Abstract
It has been estimated that teachers are involved in assessment-related activities up to 50 percent of the time. However, teacher training programs frequently do not contain specific training in educational assessment or testing. In order to identify assessment competencies for development of training materials in educational assessment for inservice teachers, a national survey was undertaken to measure teacher knowledge in assessment and testing. The instrument was designed to assess the competencies identified in 1990 by a joint committee of the National Educational Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National Council on Measurement in Education, Standards for Teacher Competence in the Educational Assessment of Students. Of the seven competency areas articulated in these Standards, teachers showed their best performance in the area of "administering, scoring and interpreting test results" and poorest performance in "communicating test results." Based on the survey results, a joint committee of NEA, AFT, and NCME is planning the development of a training prototype for delivering inservice programs to increase teacher competency in educational assessment.
Recommended Citation
Plake, Barbara S.
(1993)
"Teacher Assessment Literacy: Teachers' Competencies in the Educational Assessment of Students,"
Mid-Western Educational Researcher: Vol. 6:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/mwer/vol6/iss1/8
