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Missing Conceptions of Assessment: Qualitative Studies with Hong Kong Curriculum Leaders

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The key to successful assessment reform depends on how teachers understand the concept and practices of assessment. Brown’s findings from his questionnaire on Teachers’s Conceptions of Assessment (TCoa) show that there might be a fundamental difference in conceptions and practices of assessment between practioners in a Chinese context and those in the West. The results reveal possible cultural factors and their influences that contribute to the dissimilarities found in the conceptions of and practices in assessment.