The document discusses ethics in student assessment. It defines ethics as principles of right and wrong behavior. Teachers have an ethical responsibility to use valid and reliable information when assessing students. Fairness is a key principle of ethics in assessment. The document then lists several criteria for fair student assessment, including transparency, avoiding bias or stereotypes, accommodating student needs, and only assessing important knowledge and skills. It concludes by noting some situations where assessment may not be appropriate, such as asking sensitive personal questions or using unreliable tests.
The document discusses ethics in student assessment. It defines ethics as principles of right and wrong behavior. Teachers have an ethical responsibility to use valid and reliable information when assessing students. Fairness is a key principle of ethics in assessment. The document then lists several criteria for fair student assessment, including transparency, avoiding bias or stereotypes, accommodating student needs, and only assessing important knowledge and skills. It concludes by noting some situations where assessment may not be appropriate, such as asking sensitive personal questions or using unreliable tests.
The document discusses ethics in student assessment. It defines ethics as principles of right and wrong behavior. Teachers have an ethical responsibility to use valid and reliable information when assessing students. Fairness is a key principle of ethics in assessment. The document then lists several criteria for fair student assessment, including transparency, avoiding bias or stereotypes, accommodating student needs, and only assessing important knowledge and skills. It concludes by noting some situations where assessment may not be appropriate, such as asking sensitive personal questions or using unreliable tests.
The document discusses ethics in student assessment. It defines ethics as principles of right and wrong behavior. Teachers have an ethical responsibility to use valid and reliable information when assessing students. Fairness is a key principle of ethics in assessment. The document then lists several criteria for fair student assessment, including transparency, avoiding bias or stereotypes, accommodating student needs, and only assessing important knowledge and skills. It concludes by noting some situations where assessment may not be appropriate, such as asking sensitive personal questions or using unreliable tests.
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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: