<span>H<span>Half of the language teachers’ time is spent on assessing students’ performance. Therefore, they should be literate to assessment in terms how make a good test or knowing which method appropriate assess their learning. Without having literacy, may not able help students achieve best results For this reason, present study attempts examine teacher literacy and it has been...

This paper investigates teacher ratings in relation to the student test score in PIRLS 2001. Teacher assessment relates to concerns of equity and equality, and of making correct judgments of the students’ skills. It is thus crucial for a teacher to think about these issues. But do teachers assess the same skills equally? Previous research suggests that teacher assessments lack in equality. As a...

Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of altered teacher quality. This paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the economic impact of higher achievement. It begins with an overview of what is known about the relationship between teacher quality and student achievement. This provides the basis for consideration of the derived demand...

Because technological pedagogical content knowledge is becoming an increasingly important construct in the field of teacher education, there is a need for assessment mechanisms that capture teachers’ development of this portion of the knowledge base for teaching. The paper describes a proposal drawing on qualitative data produced during lesson study cycles to assess teachers’ development of tec...

What does it mean to align an assessment to the domain of interest? In this paper, we analyze teachers’ performance on the Learning Mathematics for Teaching assessment of Proportional Reasoning. Using a mixture Rasch model, we analyze their performance on the entire assessment, then on two different subsets of items from the original assessment. We consider the affordances of different conceptu...

In this paper, we compare subjective principal assessments of teachers to the traditional determinants of teacher compensation – education and experience – and another potential compensation mechanism -value-added measures of teacher effectiveness based on student achievement gains. We find that subjective principal assessments of teachers predict future student achievement significantly better...