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Validity Concerns in Education Assessment and the Competence of the Classroom Teacher: An Overview of the Uganda Classroom Teacher Competence

Validity is one of the critical indicators of the quality of an assessment instrument. It is basically&#160,the measure of the extent to which an assessment instrument measures what it was designed to&#160,measure, by showing the degree of relationship between the curriculum standards and the&#160,instrument.Assessment instruments are tools regularly designed and employed by a classroom teacher to&#160,measure learners&#8217, progress and, eventually, to determine learners&#8217, achievement overtime. To&#160,achieve this, the instrument must possess the ability to deliver effectively. Delivering effectively&#160,means that the instrument measures exactly what it was tasked to measure. To a classroom&#160,teacher, the assessment instrument should pass atleast the content and construct validity levels.&#160,The validity of an instrument is taken care of during the process of development of that very&#160,instrument. A classroom teacher regularly develops and uses test instruments to assess theteaching and learning that goes on in his/her class. This presupposes that the teacher possesses&#160,the required skills or ability to come up with a good quality instrument. Such ability is the&#160,teacher&#8217,s competence to cater for validity, among other qualities, of an assessment instrument,&#160,and, to a classroom teacher, mostly the content and construct validity. Therefore, thedevelopment of an effective assessment instrument requires the developer to have atleast basic&#160,competence in the principles of assessment.The paper sets to give an overview of the classroom teacher&#8217,s competence to attend to validity&#160,concerns during assessment.Keywords: Uganda, teacher&#8217,s, competence.

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