The ecology of assessment  

Oleh:

Falsgraf, Carl

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Teaching: The International Abstracting Journal for Language Teachers and Applied Linguistics (ada di PROQUEST th. 2002 - ) vol. 42 no. 4 (Oct. 2009), page 491-503.
Fulltext: 2009.4.491-503.pdf (950.23KB)

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Assessment has long been beset by a dichotomy between what Lynch (2003: 4) termed the positivist and interpretivist orientations. The former views assessment as a technical exercise involving the quantification of learners’ knowledge or cognitive abilities; the latter considers assessment as the humanistic endeavor of portraying learners’ qualitative development and subjective experiences. This presentation argues that, although these distinctions may be useful heuristics, differing types of assessments are more profitably viewed as filling particular niches within an ecosystem. The speech also reports on technical developments that place control over assessment results in the hands of learners, which allows them to assemble evidence from a variety of sources to substantiate proficiency claims. These developments should help promote the paradigm of assessment as ecology and help the field move beyond the uneasy dichotomy that now predominates.

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