Learning-oriented assessment : outstanding issues and an overview / Atta Gebril -- Learning-oriented assessment : basic concepts and frameworks in using assessment to support language learning / Nick Saville -- Language assessment literacy in a learning-oriented assessment framework / Glenn Fulcher -- Approaches to researching learning-oriented assessment in second and foreign language classrooms / Heidi Liu Banerjee -- Success in language learning : what role can language assessment play? / Neus Figueras -- Feedback as a learning-oriented assessment practice : principles, opportunities, and challenges / Daniel Lam -- Nation-wide assessment reform in Egypt : challenges and potentials of learning-oriented assessment in an examinations-based instructional setting / Atta Gebril -- Implementing learning-oriented assessment in Egyptian schools : a case study / Wael Amer -- Implementing learning oriented-assessment in Malaysia : insights from key stakeholders / Alla Khan and Norhaslinda Hassan -- "I was not thoughtful enough before:" exploiting the LOA potential of a test taker-oriented rubric for summative assessment / Beverly Baker, Maryam Homayounzadeh, and Angel Arias -- Learning oriented assessment from a teacher's perspective : insights from teachers' action research / Angelika Salamoura and Siam Morgan -- The role of technology in learning-oriented assessment / Erik Voss.
Summary:
"This collection brings together research on learning-oriented language assessment from scholars working across geographic and educational contexts, highlighting the opportunities of assessment practices which seek to better align assessment and learning tasks and support effective learning. The volume begins by introducing learning-oriented assessment (LOA) and the context around its growing popularity, especially in accountability-oriented settings which favour summative large-scale tests. The first section of the book charts the development of LOA's theoretical and conceptual underpinnings, outlining the ways in which they have been informed by theories of learning and key elements. The second section demonstrates LOA in practice, drawing on examples from different countries and instructional settings to explore such topics as the role of technology in LOA and developing feedback materials based around LOA principles and developed for core literacy skills. Offering a holistic view of learning-oriented assessment and the real-world affordances and challenges of its implementation, this book is key reading for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in language testing and assessment, TESOL, and language education"-- Provided by publisher.
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