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Queensland teachers’ conceptions of assessment: The impact of policy priorities on teacher attitudes
Teaching and Teacher Education (2011)
  • Gavin T Brown
  • Robert Lake
  • Gabrielle Matters
Abstract

The conceptions Queensland teachers have about assessment purposes were surveyed in 2003 with an abridged version of the Teacher Conceptions of Assessment Inventory. Multi-group analysis found that a model with four factors, somewhat different in structure to previous studies, was statistically different between Queensland primary and (lower) secondary teachers. Primary teachers agreed more than secondary teachers that ‘assessment improves teaching and learning’, while the latter agreed more that it ‘makes students accountable’. The inter-correlation of ‘assessment is irrelevant’ to ‘makes students accountable’ was statistically stronger for primary teachers. Teacher beliefs reflected the differing practices of assessment by level of schooling.

Keywords
  • Teacher attitudes,
  • Attitude measures,
  • Assessment,
  • Educational policy,
  • Queensland,
  • Teacher conceptions
Publication Date
January, 2011
Citation Information
Gavin T Brown, Robert Lake and Gabrielle Matters. "Queensland teachers’ conceptions of assessment: The impact of policy priorities on teacher attitudes" Teaching and Teacher Education Vol. 27 Iss. 1 (2011)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gabrielle_matters/63/