Question

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In the current assessment and accountability context, which of the following is the most significant concept for teachers' ethical and professional responsibility?

Assessment measures are developed externally and required by legislation to provide data on school effectiveness

Schools and teachers are evaluated and sanctioned based on student performance on required assessments

Schools and teachers are responsible for assuring that all students from all backgrounds demonstrate learning through test performance

Externally developed assessment measures shape local curriculum and classroom instruction because they undergo extensive field testing and evaluation

Answer 1

It can be the last one.The teacher's responsibility can not be based on student's performance only as students can come from varied backgrounds, nor schools theselves can measure their own performance. Hence it is necessary to hire external agencies to measure their performance. I remember in my school , there used to be audit of govt or one of the famous school assessment programmes.

By the externally developed assessment measures extensive training or field testing prove good measures. Since externally developed measures are not biased, they would carry all aspected of development such as teaching, knowledge, level of student, education of teacher, school environement, chances given to teachers, management of school. All these factors would measure teacher's performance. By externally developed assessmet teachers can know their strengths and drawbacks very well, extensive field testing and evaluation also gives good brain storming.