书目名称 | Teacher Involvement in High-Stakes Language Testing |
编辑 | Daniel Xerri,Patricia Vella Briffa |
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概述 | Describes how teachers in different sociocultural contexts can contribute to the development of high-stakes language tests.Exemplifies various strategies that can be used to effectively involve teache |
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描述 | .This book advocates that teachers should play an active role in high-stakes language testing and that more weight should be given to teacher judgement. This is likely to increase the formative potential of high-stakes tests and provide teachers with a sense of ownership. The implication is that the knowledge and skills they develop by being involved in these tests will feed into their own classroom practices. The book also considers the arguments against teacher involvement, e.g. the contention that teacher involvement might entrench the practice of teaching to the test, or that teachers should not be actively involved in high-stakes language testing because their judgement is insufficiently reliable. Using contributions from a wide range of international educational contexts, the book proposes that a lack of reliability in teacher judgement is best addressed by means of training and not by barring educators from participating in high-stakes language testing. It also argues that their involvement in testing helps teachers to bolster confidence in their own judgement and develop their assessment literacy. Moreover, teacher involvement empowers them to play a role in reforming high- |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | Assessment literacy; Teacher judgement; High-stakes language testing; Language assessment; Teacher invol |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77177-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-08390-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-77177-9 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 |