Abstract
The present study was conducted in order to overcome the problems associated to the unsatisfied assessment literacy needs of the university students with the aid of textbook monitoring procedure. To this end, using the teachers’ recommendations, the book entitled “testing language skills: from theory to practice†which is a well-known book being taught at Iranian BA testing courses of English translation and English literature was analyzed from the perspective of assessment literacy and in line with the monitoring and assessment dimension of Nation and Macalister’s (2010) framework of curriculum design. This analysis was instantiated with interviews regarding learners’ assessment literacy expectations of their BA testing courses. Then monitoring was performed based on the identified components that were required for learners and the objectives maintained by the authors in the initial pages of the book.Â
Highlights
The demands of the interpretive epistemology and the need for evaluative procedures that should be suited to the requirements of each specific context call for promoting present learners’ - as future teachers’- awareness of assessment and monitoring procedures (Fulcher, 2012; Popham, 2009)
Taking the monitoring and assessment dimension of Nation and Macalister’s (2010) framework for curriculum development, the present study aimed at monitoring and assessing the book developed by Farhady, Jafarpour and Birjandi (2007) as one of the main materials applied in BA testing courses at Iranian universities
One can go through the process of assessment and monitoring the testing textbooks in terms of the extent to which they have dealt with the process of assessment for the purpose of promoting learners’ and teachers’ levels of assessment literacy and this is what the present study aims to do
Summary
The demands of the interpretive epistemology and the need for evaluative procedures that should be suited to the requirements of each specific context call for promoting present learners’ - as future teachers’- awareness of assessment and monitoring procedures (Fulcher, 2012; Popham, 2009). Taking the monitoring and assessment dimension of Nation and Macalister’s (2010) framework for curriculum development, the present study aimed at monitoring and assessing the book developed by Farhady, Jafarpour and Birjandi (2007) as one of the main materials applied in BA testing courses at Iranian universities. 2. Does the book testing language skills: from theory to practice satisfy the assessment literacy requirements of Iranian BA university students studying English translation and English literature?. To what extent the objectives of the authors of the aforementioned book have been met in its context of application?
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