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Özdemir-Yilmazer, Meryem; Özkan, Yonca – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
Dynamic assessment is a dialectic procedure requiring teachers to assess learners' progress by paying attention to students' errors while providing graduated prompts to help them fix them. Although previous studies have focused on the teachers' competence in carrying out the dynamic assessment, this case study explores the dynamic assessment…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Case Studies, Error Patterns
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Sayyadi, Ali – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
The study examined university-level English instructors' assessment training experiences, classroom-based assessment practices, and assessment training needs in Iran. Sixty-eight instructors who were randomly selected through academic social networks filled out a questionnaire. Eight instructors were also interviewed. The results indicated that…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Faculty Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Giraldo, Frank – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
The language assessment literacy of English language teachers has been one of the topics of discussion in the language testing field. In this article, I focus on the need to expand research constructs and methodologies to understand, in depth, the language assessment literacy for these key players in language assessment. I first explain the need…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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De la Barra, Erika; Veloso, Sylvia; Maluenda, Lorena – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
This article examines the intervention, through the design and pedagogical implementation of two rubrics based on theory from the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach, to assess the oral competences in English of a group of sophomores in a content subject. The data collection and subsequent analysis included both quantitative…
Descriptors: Intervention, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Giraldo, Frank – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2021
In this reflection article I examine language assessment literacy initiatives and their possible impact on teachers, and I discuss the connections that exist between language assessment literacy and teachers' professional development. I explain that training for language assessment literacy may primarily foster teachers' knowledge and skills and,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Evaluation Methods, Language Teachers
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Duque-Aguilar, Jaime Fernando – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2021
This paper reports an exploratory and descriptive qualitative study on speaking assessment approaches in a teacher education program at a Colombian university. The study aimed to explore how four in-service English language teachers approach the assessment of students' speaking skill. The data were gathered through classroom observations,…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Speech Communication, Teacher Education Programs
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Arcaya, Mauricio – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
This article is a small-scale qualitative study whose objective was to identify differences between the way in which native English teachers and their non-native Chilean counterparts assess pronunciation. To achieve this, teachers from both groups were asked to assess the same material produced by two students of English pedagogy in a Chilean…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Durán, Estefanía; García, Katherin – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2021
This multiple case study explored the influence of English teachers' methodological practices over undergraduate students' learning processes in two English as a foreign language mandatory courses for different majors, at Universidad de Pamplona (Colombia). Data were gathered through non-participant observations, field notes, stimulated recall…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
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Picón Jácome, Édgar – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
In this article I present some findings of an action research study intended to find out to what extent a teacher-student partnership in writing assessment could promote high school students' autonomy. The study was conducted in a U.S. school. Two main action strategies in the assessment process were the use of symbols as the form of feedback…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teacher Student Relationship, Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation