New Year resolutions – testing … our resolve to learn more about language assessment!
In our first post in this series, we introduced (or re-introduced) the concept of “language assessment literacy” and invited readers to briefly reflect on their current assessment practices and tools and think about the importance of analysing the different types of assessment available and the appropriacy, advantages and overall validity of each, depending on different scenarios, and on just what we want to measure… and why. We offered some initial pointers as to how and where teachers might find opportunities, both individually and collectively, to further their training and development in this area.
At the start of this new calendar year and mirroring the New Year´s resolutions many of us may have undertaken now in our personal lives, the month of January seems like an appropriate time to re-visit and expand on the brief overview we provided back in the Autumn and showcase some more resources and training and development opportunities now available to us. But beyond that, this post lays down a challenge or, if you prefer, an invitation, to commit to 3 professional resolutions this year – on a term-by-term basis.
