ORTAOKULLARDA GÖREV YAPAN ÖĞRETMENLERİN EĞİTİMSEL DEĞERLENDİRMELERDE ETİK İLKELERE BAĞLILIK DÜZEYLERİNİN İNCELENMESİ
This study aims to investigate the level of secondary school teachers’ adherence to ethical principles in educational assessment with respect to various variables. Descriptive survey design was adopted as research design. The study was conducted on 601 teachers who were selected by simple random sampling from the secondary schools in the central districts of Diyarbakır in the 2017-2018 educational year. “Adherence to Ethical Principles in Educational Assessment Scale” which was constructed by Alkharusi (2016) and adapted into Turkish by İlhan et al. (2017) was used to gather data from the participants. The accuracy of the data set was checked with descriptive statistics and three participants were found to be extreme values, resulting in an overall sample of 598. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics such as minimum, maximum, mean and standard deviation. After descriptive analyses, one-way analysis of variance and independent samples t-test were run for comparison of the mean scores. The results indicated that there was a high degree of adherence to the ethical principle in educational assessments. Additionally, it was found that teaching specialty areas significantly influence the level of teachers’ adherence to ethical principles, but did not vary as a function of gender and teaching experience.

Keywords
Assessment competencies, ethics, ethical principles in educational assessment