Pre-service EL Teachers' Awareness of Assessment for/of/as Learning

master's thesis

• Title (croatian): Osviještenost budućih učitelja engleskog jezika o vrednovanju za učenje, vrednovanju kao učenje i vrednovanju naučenoga
• Author: Marija Heged
• Mentor: Ivana Cindrić (mentor)
• Committee member: Alenka Mikulec (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Ivana Milković (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Ivana Cindrić (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Teacher Education; Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2020-09-17, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Anglistics
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies; Teaching Methods in the Humanistic Sciences

Abstract

Over the past few years there has been a lot of talking about curricular reform of Croatian education system, which seeks to move past stagnation in Croatian education and to make necessary reforms, which will be discussed in the first part of this thesis. The changes mentioned should enter the area of assessment and enable more significant, efficient and frequent assessment of a student’s success and much-needed feedback of the student's level of knowledge with regard to the set outcomes. Given that the aim of this thesis is to examine the awareness of future English teachers of assessment for learning, assessment as learning, and assessment of learning, which are the approaches to assessment also present in the proposal of the new curricular reform from 2017, a research was conducted and the results are presented in the second part of this paper. Thus, the obtained results show that pre-service EFL teachers enrolled the Faculty of Teacher Education in Zagreb are mostly aware of these approaches to assessment. However, there is room for the students to explore in more depth the topic of assessment for/as/of learning and the curricular reform itself.

Abstract (croatian)

U hrvatskom školstvu posljednjih je godina aktualna kurikularna reforma u kojoj se nastoji odmaknuti od dosadašnje stagnacije u hrvatskom školstvu, krenuti ukorak s vremenom te napraviti nužne reforme o čemu će biti riječ u prvom dijelu ovoga rada. Spomenute promjene trebale bi ući i u samo područje vrednovanja i omogućiti značajniju, efikasniju i češću evaluaciju učeničkog uspjeha te prijeko potrebne povratne informacije o učenikovom stupnju znanja s obzirom na zadane ishode. S obzirom da je cilj ovoga diplomskog rada ispitati osviještenost budućih učitelja engleskog jezika o vrednovanju za učenje, vrednovanju kao učenje i vrednovanju naučenoga, o čemu je riječ i u samom prijedlogu nove kurikularne reforme iz 2017. godine, u svrhu ovoga diplomskog rada izvršeno je istraživanje čiji su rezultati prikazani u drugom dijelu ovoga rada. Tako se na temelju dobivenih rezultata pokazalo kako studenti koji pohađaju učiteljski studij s engleskim jezikom na Učiteljskom fakultetu u Zagrebu u velikoj mjeri osviješteni o navedenim pristupima vrednovanju, no ostavljen je prostor za dublje upoznavanje s navedenim pristupima, kao i kurikularnom reformom.

• Keywords: curricular reform; assessment; assessment for learning; assessment as learning; assessment of learning; English as a foreign language (EFL)
• Keywords (croatian): kurikularna reforma; vrednovanje; vrednovanje za učenje; vrednovanje kao učenju; vrednovanje naučenog; engleski kao strani jezik
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:147:922710
• Study programme: Title: Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Programme of Study of Primary Teacher Education and Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Programme of Study for Primary Teacher Education with English and German Language; Study programme type: university; Study level: integrated undergraduate and graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra primarnog obrazovanja (magistar/magistra primarnog obrazovanja)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2021-03-03 12:54:01