Conceptions of assessment in pre-service teachers’ narratives of students’ failure |
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Author: | Lutovac, Sonja1; Flores, Maria Assunção2 |
Organizations: |
1Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 2Research Centre on Child Studies (CIEC), Institute of Education, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.7 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021081943678 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Informa,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2021-08-19 |
Description: |
AbstractPre-service teachers’ conceptions of assessment have received relatively little attention in research concerned with professional development in initial teacher education. These conceptions, alongside of others regarding teaching and learning, however, have a great impact on future teachers’ instructional practices. In this study, we examine conceptions of assessment indirectly, by analysing 79 Finnish pre-service subject teachers’ narratives of students’ failure. Our findings reveal four major conceptions: (a) assessment is about feedback and reflection, (b) assessment needs to be personalised and demonstrate students’ learning, (c) assessment should take into account students’ invested effort, and (d) assessment fails to measure students’ success or failure. These findings provide a qualitative insight into and extend both research on teachers’ conceptions of assessment as a vital aspect of assessment literacy and research on pre-service teachers’ conceptions in particular. The relevance of these findings for future teachers’ professional development is discussed. see all
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Series: |
Cambridge journal of education |
ISSN: | 0305-764X |
ISSN-E: | 1469-3577 |
ISSN-L: | 0305-764X |
Volume: | 52 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 55 - 71 |
DOI: | 10.1080/0305764X.2021.1935736 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2021.1935736 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
516 Educational sciences |
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Funding: |
This work was supported by the Academy of Finland (Project ID 307672). |
Academy of Finland Grant Number: |
307672 |
Detailed Information: |
307672 (Academy of Finland Funding decision) |
Copyright information: |
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |