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Download full textWhitehead, David – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2008
In an educational context, local, ecologically valid tests can reflect the use of literacy and thinking tools. These tests present a challenge to central, content-focused, high-stakes testing, and to transmission approaches to teaching. They require teachers to accept knowledge as a verb, and to design assessment protocols that reflect…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Psychometrics, Test Construction, Educational Assessment
