Current attention to assessment in education raises concerns about the appropriate and inappropriate practices used by teachers in instructional design. Many teachers face ethical conflicts regarding the assessment and design of instructional materials for their students. This article focuses on defining ethical behavior and examining educators' ethical judgments in relation to assessment. According to the (2008) study, Educational Leaders' Perceptions of Ethical Student Assessment Practices, "little is known about educators' perceptions of the ethics of student assessment practices." This study was an online survey designed to examine the extent to which administrators agree on ethical practices in student assessment (p. 520). The most inappropriate use of test prep involved high-stakes testing and testing for special populations. The survey results suggest that explicit guidelines for defining and avoiding unethical behavior would be helpful to teachers in developing their assessment practices..Assessment and EthicsThe appropriate and inappropriate use of assessments in teaching instructional designAccording to Popham (2008), "In recent years, for example, a number of reports have been made about teachers and administrators who deliberately coached students with real copies of a supposedly exam " secure ". There are even reports of educators erasing students' incorrect answers and replacing them with correct answers. Teachers caught cheating on high-stakes exams have lost both their teaching licenses and their jobs. Rather than a few isolated cases, such test security violations have unfortunately become quite common. (p. 336). Popham goes on to explain how, with the passage from No Child Left Behind...... middle of article ......erceptions About Ethical Practices in Student Assessment http://aje.sagepub.com /content/29/4/ 520.full.pdf Popham, J., (2008), Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know, 6th edition, American Federation of Teachers, National Council on Measurement in Education, National Education Association , (1987) Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students Yarbrough, DB, Shulha, LM, Hopson, RK and Caruthers, FA (2011). Program Evaluation Standards: A Guide for Evaluators and Evaluation Users (3rd ed.)Thousand Oaks, CA: Sagehttp://www.jcsee.org/program-evaluation-standards/program-evaluation- standards-statementsPayne, E., (1997), Good practices; Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Assessment and PlacementSouthwest Texas State University, Center for Educational Initiativeshttp://www-tcall.tamu.edu/newsletr/nov97/nov97a.htm