ERIC Identifier: ED447201 Publication Date: 2000-11-00 Author:
McMillan, James H. Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and
Evaluation College Park MD. Basic Assessment Concepts for
Teachers and School Administrators. ERIC/AE Digest. While
several authors have argued that there are a number of essential
assessment concepts, principles, techniques, and procedures that
teachers and administrators need to know (e.g., Calfee & Masuda,
1997; Cizek, 1997), there continues to be relatively little
emphasis on assessment in the preparation or professional
development of teachers and administrators (Stiggins, 2000).
Nevertheless, guidance is provided through established
professional standards for assessment skills of teachers
(Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of
Students (1990), a framework of assessment tasks for
administrators(Impara & Plake, 1996), the Code of Professional
Responsibilities in Educational Measurement (1995), the Code of
Fair Testing Practices in Education (1988), and the