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Azizi, Zeinab; Namaziandost, Ehsan – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Though dynamic assessment (DA) has gained strong theoretical and empirical support over the last decades, second language (L2) practitioners have blamed it for its applicability in large classes. To ameliorate this limitation, peer-dynamic assessment (peer-DA), rooted in the conceptualization of zone of proximal development (ZPD), can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Second Language Learning
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Burner, Tony – Assessment Matters, 2019
Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) has been used in several development studies, but few have used it for the purposes of formative assessment. This article reports from a study where the activity system was used to conduct a historical and actual-empirical analysis of the assessment culture at a purposively selected school. The article…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Social Psychology, Social Theories
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Page, Tom; Thorsteinsson, Gisli; Uden, Lorna; Lehtonen, Miika – Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
Novel and innovative modes of interacting with website information, which necessitate methods and tools for their evaluation have arisen. However, it is essential to develop such methods from contexts of use at a macro (i.e. cultural) and micro (individual use contexts) level. Activity theory has been used extensively in systems evaluation as it…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Usability, Web Sites, Instructional Design