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Swedish teacher conceptions of assessment: a focus on improving outcomes
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of applied educational science. Faculty of Education & Social Work, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Science and Mathematics Education. Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå Mathematics Education Research Centre (UMERC).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8738-8639
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Science and Mathematics Education.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1535-873X
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Science and Mathematics Education. Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå Mathematics Education Research Centre (UMERC).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7089-0246
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2024 (English)In: Education Inquiry, E-ISSN 2000-4508Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Understanding teachers’ conceptions of assessment is a key objective in supporting assessment practices that lead to improved learning outcomes. Thus, inventories capable of identifying teachers’ assessment conceptions are important. The Teachers Conceptions of Assessment (TCoA) inventory was an early and influential measure of teacher assessment conceptions, but replication studies have shown that the model may be affected by policy and practice context. In the present study, a Swedish adaptation of the TCoA was administered twice, 18 months apart. A sample of 249 teachers were matched across the 2 time-points and their self-reported scores were analysed with confirmatory factor analysis and invariance testing. With good correspondence to the data, six of the nine factors in the TCoA were completely replicated and one factor was partially replicated. The model had sufficient similarity between time points to permit mean score comparisons, which were largely equivalent between times. The study indicates that the Swedish Teacher Conceptions of Assessment adaptation can be used reliably in Swedish primary and lower secondary schools as measure of teacher conceptions of the uses of assessment.

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Routledge, 2024.
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conceptions of assessment, confirmatory factor analysis, invariance, Sweden, teachers
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-227886DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2024.2375111ISI: 001268498100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85197790759OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-227886DiVA, id: diva2:1884172
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Brown, Gavin T. L.Andersson, CatarinaWinberg, Mikael T.Palmberg, BjörnPalm, Torulf

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