Lecturers’ Perceptions Toward Alternative Assessments Instead of Traditional Assessments in Iraqi Kurdistan Universities

Abstract

Recently, the interest in applying new forms of assessment are tremendously different from the traditional assessment. New forms of alternative assessment. The main objective of this paper is to determine the main reseaons behind increasing instructors unwillingness to use alternative assessment. To fulfill this aim, questionnaire have been distributed among 250 teachers in order to figure out the main resons behind their unwillingness, and only 200 forms answered proplerly. The result reveals that lack of time, facilities, economics and methods of teaching are main causes of increasing teachers’ unwillingness to use alternative assessment, eventhough it is considered as a significant way to involve students’ in the learning process.