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ERIC Number: EJ448013
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0920-525X
Teacher Assessment and Validity: What Do We Want to Know?
Brookhart, Susan M.; Loadman, William E.
Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, v5 n4 p347-57 Jun 1992
Two perspectives on assessment for teacher certification are described: the competency orientation, and the professional orientation. These perspectives are used to discuss current problems, basically validity issues, in teacher assessment: (1) a professional orientation toward assessment; (2) criterion-referenced assessments; and (3) the unit of analysis. (SLD)
Descriptors: Competence, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Problems, Professional Development, Secondary School Teachers, State Programs, Teacher Certification, Teacher Evaluation, Testing Programs, Validity
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Professional Orientation; Teacher Competency Testing; Unit of Analysis Problems
Note: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Assn. (Chicago, IL, April 3-7, 1991).