Chap.9 Ethics PPT (Edem511)

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The key takeaways are the importance of observing ethical standards like fairness, avoiding bias and stereotyping, accommodating special needs, and ensuring students have prerequisite knowledge and opportunity to learn in assessments.

Ethical standards that should be observed in assessment include making sure students have knowledge of learning targets and assessments, providing opportunities for all students to learn, identifying prerequisite skills, avoiding stereotyping, avoiding bias in tasks and procedures.

Criteria for achieving quality assessment include the assessment reflecting the most important knowledge and skills, supporting every student's opportunity to learn important things, and telling teachers and students something new.

Reporters:

Jumarie Suson
Rechelle Panganiban
What is ethics?
 “what is morally right and wrong”
 “what is good and bad behavior”
 a set of moral principles

Example: “Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers


of the Philippines” (Resolution No.435, 1997)
“How important to observe
ethical standards
in assessment?”
“Teachers have an ethical responsibility to
make decisions using the most valid and reliable
information possible” (Russell & Airasian, 2012)

Ethics in assessment centers on “fairness”.


1. Student’s knowledge of learning
targets and assessments
 Transparency
 Test-taking Skills
2. Opportunity to learn
 provides adequate time and
opportunities for all students to learn.
3. Prerequisite knowledge
 identify prerequisite skills necessary
for completing an assessment
 provide tutorials to address gaps in
students’ knowledge.
4. Avoid stereotyping
 avoid terms and examples that may be
offensive to students (ex. gender, race,
religion, culture, or nationality)
5. Avoiding bias in assessment task
and procedures
 Offensiveness
 Unfair penalization
6. Accommodating special needs
 Nature and Extent of the learner’s disability
 Type and format of assessment
 Competency and content being assessed
Criteria for achieving quality assessment:

 Assessment should reflect the knowledge


and skills that are most important for
students to learn.
Criteria for achieving quality assessment:

 Assessment should support every


student’s opportunity to learn things that are
important.
Criteria for achieving quality assessment:

 Assessment should tell teachers and


individual students something that they do
not already know.
“Are there some aspects
of teaching-learning
situation that should
not be assessed?”
Here are some situations in which assessment may
not be called for:

 asking students on sensitive questions like


their sexuality or family problems
Here are some situations in which assessment may
not be called for:

 using invalid and unreliable test


instruments that may lead to inaccurate and
misleading result
Here are some situations in which assessment may
not be called for:

confidentiality of the assessment results


Here are some situations in which assessment may
not be called for:

deception in regard to the purpose and


use of the assessment
Here are some situations in which assessment may
not be called for:

temptation to assist students in answering


tests or responding to surveys.

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