Perspectives on Language Assessment Literacy describes how the elements of language assessment literacy can help teachers to gather information about when and how to assess learners, using the appropriate assessment tools to interpret results in a fair way
Perspectives on Language Assessment Literacy describes how the elements of language assessment literacy can help teachers gather information about when and how to assess learners, and about using the appropriate assessment tools to interpret results in a fair way. It provides highlights from past and current research, descriptions of assessment processes that enhance LAL, case studies from classrooms, and suggestions for professional dialogue and collaboration.
This book will help to foster continuous learning, empower learners and teachers and make them more confident in their assessment tasks, and reassure decision makers that what is going on in assessment meets international benchmarks and standards. It addresses issues like concepts and challenges of assessment, the impacts of reflective feedback on assessment, the ontogenetic nature of assessment literacy, the reliability of classroom-based assessment, and interfaces between teaching and assessment. It fills this gap in the literature by addressing the current status and future challenges of language assessment literacy.
This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of language assessment literacy and English language teaching.
Contents
Part One: Language Assessment Literacy: Theoretical Foundations
1.Language Assessment Literacy: Where to Go
Sahbi Hidri
2. Language Assessment Literacy: Concepts, Challenges and Prospects
Dina Tsagari
3. Traditional Assessment and Encouraging Alternative Assessment that
Promotes Learning: Illustrations from EAP
Lee McCallum
4.Language Assessment Literacy: Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic Perspectives
Mojtaba Mohammadi, Reza Vahdani Sanavi, Mojtaba Mohammadi, Iran; Reza Vahdani
Sanavi
Part Two: Students Language Assessment Literacy
5. Enhancing Assessment Literacy through Feedback and Feedforward: A
Reflective Practice in EFL Classroom Dr. Junifer A. Abatayo
6. Using Checklists for Developing Student Teachers Language Assessment
Literacy
Olga Ukrayinska
7. An Investigation into the Correlation between IETLS Test Preparation
Courses and Writing Score: Students Reflective Journals
Fatema AL Awadi
Part Three: Teachers Language Assessment Literacy
8. Language Assessment Literacy of Novice EFL Teachers: Perceptions,
Experiences and Training
Aylin Sevimel-Sahin
9. Teachers' Assessment of Academic Writing: Implications for Language
Assessment Literacy
Zulfiqar Ahmad
10.Reliability of Classroom-Based Assessment as Perceived by University
Managers, Teachers and Students
Olga Kvasova & Vyacheslav Shovkovyi
Part Four: Language Assessment Literacy: Interfaces between Teaching and
Assessment
11. To Teach Speaking or not to Teach? The Interfaces Between Teaching and
Assessing Speaking in Bahrain Diana Aljahromi
12. Planning for Positive Washback: The Case of a Listening Proficiency Test
Caroline Shackleton
13.Testing Abilities To Understand, not Ignorance or Intelligence: Social
Interactive Assessment: Receive, Appreciate, Summarize, Ask
Tim Murphey
14.Conclusion: Language Assessnent Literacy: The way forward
Sahbi Hidri
Sahbi Hidri is Assistant Professor at the Department of Education, Abu Dhabi Womens Campus, HCT, UAE. His interests include curriculum design, assessment, psychometrics, standard-setting, test mapping and benchmarking, test theory, test specifications, computerized dynamic assessment, and language assessment literacy.
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