Assessment and testing course / 2019-1

Reading Report Format

Title Understanding classroom-based assessment practices: A

precondition for teacher assessment literacy

Author (s) Dr. Kathryn Hill (La Trobe University from Australia)
Year 2017
Key words Teaching assessment literacy, Language assessment,
Classroom-based assessment, conducting and using
assessment
Purpose of the Relate and illustrate teaching assessment literacy and
text classroom-based assessment principles by a framework
design to give teachers a guidance.
What is the text
about?
The author starts contrasting her research about assessment
with other different investigations in order to understand more
the field of assessment in the role of teaching and learning.
The text also trace some concepts about informal
assessments and its implications on learning processes. It
also arises the assessment confusions that teachers have and
its consequences. And in order to help teachers to solve that
issues the author gives some questions or a framework to
have a guideline when they think about construction and
development of assessment.

Main ideas The text develop the following main ideas:

developed in the
text 1. Teaching assessment literacy- all the process that has
 to do with tests (Fulcher)
2. Classroom based assessment- reflection made by the
teacher or the students about the learner’s performance
( Hill and McNamara)
3. Teachers concerns in the moment to face assessment
literacy misunderstandings and the factors that are
important to take into account
4. Survey of questions as guidelines for the dimensions of
teaching assessment literacy

Conclusions I can
write after reading
One of the most significant conclusions that I can take from
the document is about the importance to become more
conscious about all the factors that affect assessment and
also how beliefs can permeate the creation and
implementation of assessments in our teaching and learning
processes.

Concepts or ideas
I do not
understand/ The text was understandable and full of important content for
concerns us as teachers. I consider that I have a a well comprehension
about the things that where describe in the document

Caution! Ideas must be presented in your own words, copy & paste is absolutely forbidden!