Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students

These standards were developed by the American Federation of Teacher National Council on Measurement in Education National Education Association.

1. Teachers should be skilled in choosing assessment methods appropriate for instructional decisions.

2. Teachers should be skilled in developing assessment methods appropriate for instructional decisions.

3. The teacher should be skilled in administering, scoring and interpreting the results of both externally-produced and teacher-produced assessment methods.

4. Teachers should be skilled in using assessment results when making decisions about individual students, planning teaching, developing curriculum,  and school improvement.

5. Teachers should be skilled in developing valid pupil grading procedures which use pupil assessments.

6. Teachers should be skilled in communicating assessment results to students, parents, other lay audiences, and other educators.

7. Teachers should be skilled in recognizing unethical, illegal, and otherwise inappropriate assessment methods and uses of assessment information.