Abstract
This research was carried out to determine the effectiveness and functionality of the word association test (WAT), which is a formative assessment tool that is frequently emphasized on today’s modern education systems. The study group consisted of 60 students in a public school in Kocaeli in the school year 2018-2019. Participants were identified using convenience sampling technique. The data of the study were obtained by using pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental design with no control group. The data were categorized by subjecting to content analysis. The findings were tabulated using the cut-off technique and analyzed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. When the results of the study were examined, it was concluded that conceptual change and development occurred in participants’ minds and there was a significant difference in the results of the Wilcoxon test performed before and after the implementation. It was observed that the students wrote 1669 words before the implementation, and the number increased to 2193 after it. This shows that the students associate the key concept of “migration” with more words after the implementation and thus there is a wider connotation related to migration in their minds. In addition, the results of this research reveal that the WAT is suitable for formative assessment and can be used in educational studies.
Highlights
IntroductionToday’s education systems aim to provide students with a higher quality education and to educate individuals who continuously improve themselves academically, forcing societies to canalize to more contemporary education approaches
As a result of the review of the relationship between teaching and assessment concepts for the last 20 years, it has been shown that “assessment” guides students’ learning skills (Biggs & Watkins, 1996).Today’s education systems aim to provide students with a higher quality education and to educate individuals who continuously improve themselves academically, forcing societies to canalize to more contemporary education approaches
The results of this study aimed to measure how much the word association test allows formative assessment was obtained through content analysis applied to WAT forms
Summary
Today’s education systems aim to provide students with a higher quality education and to educate individuals who continuously improve themselves academically, forcing societies to canalize to more contemporary education approaches. This has played an important role in the adoption of a constructive approach by many developed countries such as the United States, Australia, Finland and New Zealand (Aşkar et al, 2005). The constructivist approach has brought many innovations to our education system. One of these innovations is formative assessment and evaluation it is not fully adopted yet
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