On the usefulness of CDA-based score reporting: implications for self-regulated learningSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 Số 1 - 2021
Yeonsook Yi
AbstractIn cognitive diagnostic modeling research, one area that has not had enough research interests is remedial learning or instruction based on the information provided by cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA). The present study tries to address this research gap by looking into the usefulness of the fine-grained score reports based on CDA in two different ways...... hiện toàn bộ
Differential impacts of e-portfolio assessment on language learners’ engagement modes and genre-based writing improvementSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 12 - Trang 1-19 - 2022
Natasha Pourdana, Kobra Tavassoli
Portfolio assessment (PA) as an assessment for learning (AfL) alternative has been under-represented in second/foreign language acquisition (SLA) research literature. This study examined the potential impacts of electronic PA (e-PA) on English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners’ engagement modes in descriptive and narrative genres of writing on Moodle™. To do so, 56 university students were non-...... hiện toàn bộ
Fairness in assessment practices in online education: Iranian University English teachers’ perceptionsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 12 - Trang 1-17 - 2022
Zeinab Azizi
Although fairness in assessment practices (APs) in traditional classes has gained noticeable attention in recent years, it has remained unexplored in online education (OE). Thus, this study explores Iranian university English teachers’ perceptions of fair APs in OE. For this purpose, 21 university English teachers from Lorestan University and Ayatollah Borujerdi University, Iran, were selected usi...... hiện toàn bộ
Language assessment in the new English curriculum in Iran: managerial, institutional, and professional barriersSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 8 - Trang 1-18 - 2018
Kioumars Razavipour, Karim Rezagah
Assessment policies and practices are key to the success of curriculum innovations. Therefore, large-scale ELT innovations always include changes in assessment too. Thinking that Iranian students were not enabled to communicate in English after six years of English education in public schools, educational policy makers have recently embarked on a new curriculum that is thought to be a departure fr...... hiện toàn bộ
Assessing in-class participation for EFL: considerations of effectiveness and fairness for different learning stylesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 1-19 - 2015
Peter R Crosthwaite, Daniel R Bailey, Ashley Meeker
This study investigates the effectiveness and fairness of teacher-led assessment of students’ in-class participation and its effect on actual participation levels and language test scores, taking into account the diversity of second language learners’ learning styles. The level of participation was measured across ten criteria over a one-semester period in four classes of beginner/intermediate lev...... hiện toàn bộ
Construct and content in context: implications for language learning, teaching and assessment in ChinaSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 7 - Trang 1-18 - 2017
Yan Jin
Context is vitally important in conceptualizing the construct and specifying the content of language learning, teaching, and assessment. In a rapidly changing globalized world, it is difficult but very important to identify and capture the unique features of local contexts. In this article, the experience of China will be used to discuss the impact of contextual features on policies and practices ...... hiện toàn bộ
Collaborative learning, scaffolding-based instruction, and self-assessment: impacts on intermediate EFL learners’ reading comprehension, motivation, and anxietySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 13 Số 1
Khaled Ahmed Abdel-Al Ibrahim, Néstor Cuba Carbajal, Manuel Enrique Chenet Zuta, Sania Bayat
AbstractThis research set to examine the impacts of collaborative learning (CL), scaffolding instruction, and self-assessment on reading anxiety, reading motivation, and reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. Based on Preliminary English Test (PET) results, a sample of 58 students was chosen to represent the study’s sample subject out of a total of 71 parti...... hiện toàn bộ
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2011
Robert Kirkpatrick