چکیده:
Assessment, as a key component of education, has long been a matter of concern to teachers and it receives even more significance when perceived from the view point of ethics. The combination of the two concepts, i.e. ethical assessment, is difficult to define and complicated to measure. But prior to all these comes how teachers perceive it. The present research reports on a study of English teachers’ perception of ethical assessment. Following Green, Johnson, Kim, and Pope (2007), 108 English teachers were asked to state their opinions about ethicality or unethicality of 40 prevalent assessment practices classified into seven themes: test preparation, communication about grading, multiple assessment opportunities, test administration, grading practices, confidentiality, and neutrality. The findings suggest that respondents displayed consensus on only two fifth of the scenarios. To delve into the reasoning behind participants’ choices, 2 participants were interviewed for each scenario and the findings, also, were thematically compared with those reported in literature.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Following Green, Johnson, Kim, and Pope (2007), 108 English teachers were asked to state their opinions about ethicality or unethicality of 40 prevalent assessment practices classified into seven themes: test preparation, communication about grading, multiple assessment opportunities, test administration, grading practices, confidentiality, and neutrality.
(2007), as a model study in this area, reported that agreement among the participating teachers in terms of the ethicality or unethicality of the interrogated grading practices was found only in fewer than half of the presented scenarios, revealing lack of consensus in the profession.
Table 3: Percentage of teachers indicating the ethicality of assessment practices in Test Preparation Scenarios about Test Preparation 2 A 3rd grade senior high Responde nts’ answers Gender Experience Male Female Novice Experiencedschool English teacher administers a parallel form of a standardized test to her students in preparation for the state testing which is alike across the country.
4% of respondents stated that taking 3 quizzes during the semester to make sure students had mastered the covered material(s) without incorporating the results in students’ final scores, (Item 6) and use of many different assessment procedures were viewed as ethical (Items 34), but disagreement was elicited on the scenarios when students’ final semester grades were based on 2 multiple choice tests (Item 27) and when assessment was solely based on observation for a methodology course (Item 38).
Table 8: Percentage of teachers indicating the ethicality of assessment practices in Neutrality Scenarios about neutrality Respondent s’ answers Gender Experience Male Female Novice Experienced 14 A female instructor gives higher scores to her female students irrespective of the male students’ performance.