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Jia, Lin; Cai, Jianyong; Wang, Jianqin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
In Dynamic Assessment (DA), the observation that individuals respond differently to support, or mediation, is important for diagnoses of development. The concept of learning potential refers to openness to mediation, i.e., the extent of change to performance when mediation is available, which may suggest learners will need less overall instruction…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Saito, Hidetoshi; Sawaki, Yasuyo; Kasahara, Kiwamu – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
The study evaluated a recently postponed national test policy on the use of external agencies' English tests measuring four skills for Japanese university admission purposes. Using Kunnan's principles of fairness and justice, we generated and evaluated three claims regarding the test policy: vocabulary coverage of the tests, the justifiability of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Equal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Schissel, Jamie L.; López-Gopar, Mario; Leung, Constant; Morales, Julio; Davis, James R. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
For linguistically diverse communities, researchers have long questioned assessment approaches that disregard learners' multilingualism. Our study offers potential approaches that center contextualized, multilingual knowledges and skills within classroom-based language assessments with one teacher and his English foreign language courses for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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van der Veen, Chiel; Dobber, Marjolein; van Oers, Bert – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
Dynamic Assessment (DA) has received a considerable amount of attention in the educational sciences and beyond. DA combines instruction or feedback with assessment or testing within a single activity. DA has great potential for classroom practices, but has not been implemented in many classrooms yet. In this article, we argue that teacher…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Elementary School Teachers