Testing is only one component in the evaluation process. This book shows how evaluation of learners, course design, curricula, methodology, and materials can provide teachers and other ELT professionals with a great deal of useful information. The authors both examine the principles underlying the subject and give practical guidance on the planning of evaluation activities in the classroom.
Testing is only one component in the evaluation process. This book shows how evaluation of learners, course design, curricula, methodology, and materi...
Increased emphasis in many school systems on formal testing to mark student achievement and hold teachers accountable has begun to heighten concern among many educational policy makers, assessment specialists, and classroom teachers over questions of access and fairness, particularly for learners from culturally different backgrounds and those with a history of academic struggles. This situation echoes that faced by the Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky nearly ninety years ago in his efforts to understand processes of development and meet the needs of all learners. His famous proposal of...
Increased emphasis in many school systems on formal testing to mark student achievement and hold teachers accountable has begun to heighten concern am...
