dc.contributor.author | Whitehead, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-11-24T03:39:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-11-24T03:39:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Whitehead, D. (2008). Testing like you teach: The challenge of constructing local, ecologically valid tests. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 7(3), 10-25. | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1175-8708 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10289/3407 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 co-constructive ways of teaching. This article reports the outcome of praxis action research with middle and secondary school teachers who incorporated topic-appropriate literacy and thinking tools into their teaching. They also redesigned their local tests linked to high-stakes test protocols to reflect the use of these tools. A thematic analysis of observations and interviews suggests that this process impacted on the structural characteristics (morés) of the schools, and posed affective, cognitive and pedagogical challenges to teachers. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Waikato | en_NZ |
dc.relation.uri | http://edlinked.soe.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/view.php?article=true&id=532&p=1 | en |
dc.rights | This article has been published in the journal: English Teaching: Practice and Critique. Used with permission. | en |
dc.subject | ecologically valid | en |
dc.subject | tests | en |
dc.subject | literacy | en |
dc.subject | teaching | en |
dc.title | Testing like you teach: The challenge of constructing local, ecologically valid tests | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.relation.isPartOf | English Teaching: Practice and Critique | en_NZ |
pubs.begin-page | 10 | en_NZ |
pubs.elements-id | 34528 | |
pubs.end-page | 25 | en_NZ |
pubs.issue | 3 | en_NZ |
pubs.volume | 7 | en_NZ |