Student Evaluation Standards

Overview

The Student Evaluation Standards presents and elaborates 28 standards for use in a variety of educational institutions. The standards provide guidelines for designing, implementing, assessing and improving student evaluation. Each of the 28 standards has been placed in 1 of 4 essential categories to promote student evaluations that are proper, useful, feasible, and accurate.

• The Propriety standards help ensure that student evaluations are conducted lawfully, ethically, and with regard to the rights of students and other persons affected by student evaluation.
• The Utility standards promote the design and implementation of informative, timely, and useful student evaluations.
• The Feasibility standards help ensure that student evaluations are practical; viable; cost-effective; and culturally, socially, and politically appropriate.
• The Accuracy standards help ensure that student evaluations will provide sound, accurate, and credible information about student learning and performance.

Although intended for broad application, the primary focus of these standards is to promote sound, credible, and accurate evaluations that foster student learning and development at the classroom level. These standards are intended for teachers and others who evaluate students as well as those who use and are affected by student evaluations.