Student assessment strategies in Portugal: an analysis of TALIS 2013

Abstract

The OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) is the largest international survey of teachers. This survey looks at the features that influence effective teaching, such as teachers’ initial training and their professional development, the feedback they receive on their teaching, the climate in the classrooms and schools, their satisfaction with their job, as well as the teaching, learning and assessment strategies they use in the classroom. In this paper it is proposed to (i) analyze the TALIS 2013 data concerning the assessment strategies used by low secondary (ISCED level 2) Portuguese teachers and (ii) compare the use of the assessment strategies made by low secondary Portuguese teachers’ with those used by other European teachers.