Developing Language Assessment Literacy of Teachers: needs, effective factors, and constraints
In recent years, developing language assessment literacy (LAL) has become crucial for teachers in enhancing their teaching practices and improving students’ learning outcomes.
Sabah Al-Akbari
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The extent to which an intervention is perceived as sociallyvalid significantly influences whether the intervention is selected,implemented, and maintained (Kern & Manz, 2004).
Adam C Carreon +9 more
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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.
Frank Giraldo +2 more
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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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An Investigation of Assessment Literacy Among Native and Non-Native English Teachers [PDF]
The current study aimed at examining the relationship between English language teachers’ assessment literacy and their teaching experience. In other words, it intended to inspect the relationship between native and non-native English language teachers ...
Esmaeel Ali Salimi, mitra farsi
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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 paper proposes the preparation of a new generation of assessment literate teachers. The issues of student assessment literacy and, more specifically, prospective language teacher assessment literacy have not been sufficiently investigated as of yet ...
Olga Kvasova
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Planning an Online Assessment Course for English Language Teachers in Latin America
In this article, we report the results of a study through which we collected English language teachers’ needs and wants to design an online language assessment course.
Frank Giraldo, Xun Yan
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Early Impact of Childhood Opportunity on Neurocognitive Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease
ABSTRACT Introduction Neurocognitive impairment is a well‐recognized complication of sickle cell disease (SCD) that begins early in childhood and persists across development. While cerebrovascular injury contributes substantially to risk, neurocognitive deficits are also observed in children without overt or silent cerebral infarctions, suggesting ...
Julia E. LaMotte +5 more
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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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