International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences October 2012, Vol. 2, No. 10 ISSN: 2222-6990 155 www.hrmars.com/journals Suggesting a New Model of Assessment at Chinese Teacher Education Institutions: Perceptions of University Students Syed Manzar-Abbas PhD Scholar (Principles of Education), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, P. R. China Shafqat Hussain Khan Senior Principal, MC High School Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan Wang Yang Deng Feng Primary School, Distt Lv shun kou, Dalian, P.R. China Lu Lijie Professor of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, P. R. China Email: lvlj@nenu.edu.cn Abstract The study was conducted to investigate the different aspects of assessments like fairness, feedback ability, compatibility with the goals, and satisfaction of the students about assessment system in teacher education institutions. The main object of the study was to suggest a model of assessment applicable in the teacher education institutions in China. The students were ignorant of curricular goals. The teachers were not providing proper feedback to the students. Overwhelming majority suggested integrating internal and external assessment system. The majority doubted the fairness and validity of the assessment. A model was suggested to align the goals, instruction, and assessment. Keywords: “tudeŶts peƌĐeptioŶs, teaĐheƌ eduĐatioŶ iŶstitutioŶs, assessŵeŶt, assessŵeŶt model Introduction Over the past two decades the higher education institutions and educators are very much interested in making assessment effective to improve learning (Sadler, 2005) because assessment plays pivotal in teaching-leaning process (Ahmed & Teviotdale, 2008). Using assessment as a determinant the students regard something important (Brown, 2001). The other important function of assessment is to give feedback to the students and the teachers. The assessment is actually done for the decision making about student s peƌfoƌŵaŶĐe oƌ achievement. But at the same time this performance or achievement is compared with some