An Exploratory Study of EFL Teachers’ Assessment Conceptions at a Saudi University
- 15 September 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AWEJ Group in Arab World English Journal
- Vol. 12 (3), 464-485
- https://doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol12no3.32
Abstract
Each teacher evaluates students' learning outcomes in their own way, depending on their own ideas and beliefs about teaching, learning, and assessing. It impacts on how pupils work. As a result, concentrating on instructors' perspectives in general appears to be vital, and exposing EFL teachers' evaluation concepts is crucial and requires considerable investigation. The current study examines teachers' assessment conceptions of English as a foreign language (EFL) at a Saudi University. Specifically, it investigates EFL university teachers' assessment conceptions using Brown's (2006) Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment Abridged Inventory, four-factor assessment inventory conceptions that include variables like student accountability, school accountability, progress, and irrelevance. The survey employed a Likert scale with response options ranging from one (strongly disagree) to five (strongly agree). The researcher gathered the study's data using Google Forms and administered an online questionnaire to fifteen EFL English teachers in English Language Center at a Saudi University called Afaq University (pseudonym), Saudi Arabia. The obtained quantitative data were analyzed manually by descriptive statistics. The findings demonstrated that of all participants, the enhancement principle had the primary value, whereas the conceptions of irrelevance, on the other hand, were discovered to have the lowest level of agreement. The study presented some pedagogical implications and then concluded with the need for further triangulated exploration of the phenomenon.Keywords
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