Language Assessment Literacy: Insights for Educating English Language Teachers through Assessment
At some point, language teachers need to be engaged in language assessment in their profession. Because language assessment is such a primary task for teachers, the field of language testing is encouraging research around the knowledge, skills, and ...
Frank Giraldo
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HOTS-based language assessment literacy: Challenges and prospects in English language teaching
The issues of inaccurate and invalid language assessment were mainly due to teachers’ lower level of assessment literacy and teachers' inadequate skills to design higher-order thinking skills (henceforth HOTS) based language assessments. Thus, this paper
Sumardi Sumardi, Rizki Indra Guci
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Language assessment literacy: what do we need to learn, unlearn, and relearn?
Recently, we have witnessed a growing interest in developing teachers’ language assessment literacy. The ever increasing demand for and use of assessment products and data by a more varied group of stakeholders than ever before, such as newcomers with ...
Christine Coombe +2 more
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The Evolving Concept of (Language) Assessment Literacy. Implications for Teacher Education
Language teachers’ assessment knowledge and skills have received considerable attention from language assessment researchers over the past few decades (Davison & Leung, 2009; Hill & McNamara, 2012; Rea-Dickins, 2001; Taylor, 2013).
Ildikó Csépes
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English Teachers' Perceptions of a Language Assessment Literacy Course
Language assessment literacy has gained recent attention in the field of language testing, particularly on teachers’ profile. However, the literature on LAL is limited regarding teachers’ perceptions of language assessment courses. In this paper, we used
Frank Giraldo +2 more
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Language Assessment Literacy and Teachers’ Professional Development: A Review of the Literature
In this literature review, I analyze the features and impacts of 14 programs which promoted teachers’ language assessment literacy. I used content analysis to build a coding scheme with data-driven and concept-driven categories to synthesize and then ...
Frank Giraldo
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The study reports on how Classroom Assessment Course changed the perspectives of EFL pre-service teachers related with language assessment and contributed to their language assessment literacy development.
Elçin ÖLMEZER ÖZTÜRK
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Towards a Comprehensive, Empirical Model of Language Assessment Literacy across Stakeholder Groups: Developing the Language Assessment Literacy Survey [PDF]
While scholars have proposed different models of language assessment literacy (LAL), these models have mostly comprised prescribed sets of components based on principles of good practice. As such, these models remain theoretical in nature, and represent the perspectives of language assessment researchers rather than stakeholders themselves. The project
Kremmel, Benjamin, Harding, Luke
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Teacher Educators’ Conceptions of Language Assessment Literacy in Norway
In order to gain a deeper understanding of what language assessment literacy (LAL) is and how it can be developed, it is relevant to investigate it from the point of view of different stakeholders (Harding & Kremmel, 2016).
Henrik Bøhn, Dina Tsagari
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The language assessment literacy needs of Iranian EFL teachers with a focus on reformed assessment policies [PDF]
Teachers’ assessment literacy has recently captured the attention of scholars across various educational contexts. The literature has it that there is a gap between teachers’ assessment practices and national assessment policies.
Tahereh Firoozi +2 more
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