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Thinking About a Professional Ethics

The article begins by considering some of the factors that make thinking about ethical issues difficult especially as they come up in language assessment. It discusses the idea of a professional ethics as a guide for ethical decision-making and rejects virtue and utilitarian accounts for a Kantian perspective. A Kantian perspective is favored in part because it encourages us to think about constructing a professional ethic as an object that helps further complex ethical ends. The ethical code of the American Psychological Association is discussed critically as a means of seeing how to understand differences between professional aspirations and principles that set requirements. I conclude with a brief discussion of 2 issues of concern for language assessment, educational accountability and immigration policy.