English Language Teachers’ Perceived Classroom Assessment Knowledge and Practice: Developing and Validating a Scale

• Autores: Zia Tajeddin, Zari Saeedi, Vahid Panahzadeh
• Localización: Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, ISSN 1657-0790, ISSN-e 2256-5760, Vol. 24, Nº. 2, 2022, págs. 247-264
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This study sought to develop and validate a classroom-based language assessment literacy scale to measure teachers’ perceived classroom-based assessment knowledge and practice. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that the scale items clustered around four factors: (a) purposes of assessment and grading, (b) assessment ethics, (c) student involvement in assessment, and (d) feedback and assessment interpretation. Moreover, the scale was administered to 348 Iranian English as a foreign language teachers. The findings showed that the majority reported to be literate in classroom-based language assessment and agreed to the allocation of more space to classroom-based language assessment in teacher education courses. The findings suggest that the newly-developed scale can serve as a valid and reliable tool to explore language teachers’ classroom-based assessment literacy.