title: Teachers' conceptions of assessment: validation of an abridged version.
abstract: Psychometric characteristics of the abridged Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment-III are reported. Data are from a study of 525 New Zealand primary school teachers and from a second study of 692 Queensland primary school teachers. The abridged version of 27 statements using a positively packed response scale had good fit characteristics for primary teachers in both New Zealand (chi(311)2 = 841.02; RMSEA = .057; TLI = .87) and Queensland (chi(311)2 = 1492.61; RMSEA = .074; TLI = .80). While providing information of similar quality to that of the original the abridged version is more efficient than the full scale.
authors.affiliation: School of Education, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. gt.brown@auckland.ac.nz
authors.forename: Gavin T L
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires