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Assessment Practices and Beliefs: Teachers’ Perspectives on Assessment during Long Distance Learning
- Source :
- Education Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 264, p 264 (2021), Education Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 6
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- The COVID-19 crisis has strongly affected the school system. In Italy, at-distance forms of didactics have been activated, changing the physiognomy of schools in terms of social interaction, practices and the identity of the individuals. In this paper, we address the issue of how teachers are facing the crisis: our focus is on assessment, as a key variable catalyzing personal history<br />beliefs<br />the interface between students<br />teachers and the school system. We study teachers’ beliefs as part of their identities and assessment as a fundamental variable of beliefs. A qualitative content analysis of the open-ended answers to an online questionnaire is carried out to understand the main characteristics associated with assessment by teachers and the obstacles to overcome in the context of long distance learning (LDL). The data show that teachers did not identify valid assessment methods for LDL during the lockdown, especially due to the lack of control over the students. A misconception emerges concerning the definition of formative assessment together with a new awareness of the possibilities offered by digital technologies regarding the individualization of didactics. This study helps to understand which teachers’ beliefs are related to assessment are and how they are shaped.
- Subjects :
- teacher identity
Public Administration
formative assessment
Control (management)
Distance education
teachers’ beliefs
Identity (social science)
Socio-culturale
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Context (language use)
Computer-assisted web interviewing
Education
Formative assessment
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Mathematics education
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
teachers' beliefs
long distance learning
05 social sciences
050301 education
Physiognomy
Long distance learning
Teacher identity
Teachers’ beliefs
Social relation
Computer Science Applications
Psychology
0503 education
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22277102
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 264
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Education Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7c1faa0d998c59ca99635e4a338e6bb2