Assessment Purposes and Procedures in ESL/EFL Classrooms

Autor/inn/en	Cheng, Liying; Rogers, W. Todd; Wang, Xiaoying
Titel	Assessment Purposes and Procedures in ESL/EFL Classrooms
Quelle	In: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 33 (2008) 1, S.9-32 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-2938
Schlagwörter	Student Evaluation; Foreign Countries; Evaluation Methods; Teaching Methods; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Comparative Analysis; Interviews; College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Prior Learning; Higher Education; Canada; China; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Ausland; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Fakultät; Lehrerverhalten; Vorkenntnisse; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Kanada; Hongkong
Abstract	University instructors' classroom assessments play a central role in and inevitably influence their teaching and their students' learning. This paper reports on a comparative interview study conducted in a range of three ESL/EFL university contexts in Canada, Hong Kong and China. Six major aspects of ESL/EFL classroom assessment practices were explored: instructors' assessment planning for the courses they taught, the relative weight given to course work and tests in their instruction, the type of assessment methods (selection vs. supply methods) that they used, the purposes each assessment was used for, the source of each method used, and when they used each method. University instructors were also asked to indicate what they saw as the advantages and disadvantages of the methods they used, and whether they took into account prior student knowledge when making decisions about what assessment methods to use. The findings contribute to a better understanding of ESL/EFL university instructors' classroom assessment practices at the tertiary level in a range of three ESL/EFL university teaching contexts. (Contains 5 tables and 4 notes. Appended are: ESL/EFL Teacher Interview Guide; and ESL/EFL Teacher Interview Sheet.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10