ROMANO MARÍA ELISA
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Título:
Student writing assessment: Looking into teachers' criteria and beliefs
Lugar:
San Juan
Reunión:
Congreso; XLI FAAPI Conference ?ELT as a Multidisiciplinary Endeavour: Growing through Collaboration?; 2016
Institución organizadora:
Asociación Sanjuanina de Profesores de Inglés
Resumen:
Assessment and evaluation are very important components of the teaching and learning process, as they determine the necessary accreditation for students to participate actively and properly in the educational community. The impact of evaluation is a problem that continues to be explored, since it is a reality on which teachers and researchers should reflect in a systematic way. In the case of the process of evaluation of writing in a foreign language, many specialists stress the multiplicity of external and internal factors that intervene in such a process, among which teachers? conception of the writing ability stands out. In this presentation, we will first make reference to current research on writing assessment and to different ways of assessing and grading student academic writing. We will continue by describing the objectives and procedure of a research project we conducted in 2014-2015 at a higher education institution in Argentina. The purpose of the project was to study the practices, attitudes and beliefs of the teachers that carry out the process of evaluation and grading of students? academic texts at upper intermediate level. The data gathered from teacher reports as well as from teacher interviews will be presented and analyzed in the light of theory and previous studies in the field and the specific characteristics and needs of our own educational context. Finally, we will communicate the results of our research, together with a reflection on the importance of ensuring the validity and uniformity of evaluation criteria in academic writing in English as a foreign language.