The current focus on assessment in education is a cause for concern regarding the appropriate and inappropriate practices that teachers use in instructional design. Many teachers face ethical conflicts regarding evaluating and designing 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 Leader's Perceptions about Ethical Practices in Student Evaluation, "little is known about educators' perceptions of the ethics of student evaluation practices." This study was a web-based survey designed to examine how much administrators agree about ethical practices in student evaluation (p.520). The most inappropriate use of test preparation involved high-stakes testing and testing for special populations. The survey findings suggest that explicit guidelines for defining and avoiding unethical behavior could be helpful to teachers in developing their assessment practices. Assessment and ethicsThe appropriate and inappropriate use of assessments in instructional designAccording to Popham (2008), “In recent years, for example, there have been numerous reports of teachers and administrators deliberately instructing students with authentic copies of a supposedly “secure” exam ". There are also reports of educators deleting students' incorrect answers and substituting correct answers in their place. Teachers caught cheating on high-stakes tests lost both their teaching licenses and their jobs. Rather than a few isolated cases, such testing security breaches have, unfortunately, become quite common.” (p. 336). Popham goes on to discuss how, with the passage of No Child Left Behind... midway through the document... perceptions of ethical practices in student evaluation http://aje.sagepub.com/content/29/4/ 520. full.pdfPopham, J., (2008), Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know, 6th edAmerican Federation of Teachers, National Council on Measurement in Education, National Education Association, (1987) Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of StudentsYarbrough, D.B., Shulha, L.M., Hopson, R.K., & Caruthers, F.A. (2011). The ProgramEvaluation 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 in Assessment and PlacementSouthwest Texas State University, Center for Initiatives in Educationhttp://www-tcall.tamu.edu/newsletr/nov97/nov97a.htm