Recent developments in the region and in the Philippines have prompted the Philippine
government to push for a new basic education curriculum. Along with these changes is the …

The 1990 Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students (AFT,
NCME, & NEA, 1990) made a documentable contribution to the field. However, the …

Basic reading proficiency is key to success in all content areas, but attending to students'
literacy development remains a challenge for many teachers, especially after the primary …

The competencies required for conducting assessment in the educational context have
recently been reformulated in view of social constructivist perspectives and the …

This study examined the assessment literacy of primary/junior teacher candidates in all four
years of their concurrent program. Candidates from each year of the program completed a …

A particular framework of teachers' conceptions about assessment in school is presented.
Fifty teachers of primary and secondary school were interviewed. Results of a qualitative …

Teacher assessment decision making is described as a process that may be important in
developing a measurement theory for classroom assessment. Teacher beliefs and values …

In the editorial to the first issue of Language Testing Journal, which appeared in June 1984,
the editors, Arthur Hughes and Don Porter, state that “This new journal has come into being …

The growth of teachers'1 professional knowledge and skills has been the topic of policy,
research, and even philosophy for many decades. The assessment of English Learners …

Teachers typically receive the brunt of the criticism for poor performance on large-scale
standardized tests. In order to stave off this criticism, some teachers have begun to provide …