A Comparison of Pre-service towards Testing: The Spanish Baccalaureate General Test and the American OPI
Authors
Otero De Juan, Nuria; García Laborda, Jesús; Litzler Jerman, Mary Frances; Megías Rosa, Manuel; Bejarano, Luis G.Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/57591DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.578
ISSN: 1877-0428
Date
2014-02-21Funders
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Bibliographic citation
Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014, v. 116, p. 2386-2391
Keywords
Testing
Tre-service
Teacher education
Survey
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/Programa Nacional de Investigación Fundamental/ FFI2011-22442 /ES/ORIENTACION, PROPUESTAS Y ENSEÑANZA PARA LA SECCION DE INGLES EN LA PRUEBA DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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Abstract
Problem Statement: One of the most frequently neglected aspects of testing is teachers? attitudes. Overall, in-service teachers may have a preconception of what testing means and what its implications are both in high and low stakes testing. However, very few studies have addressed the realities or opinions of pre-service teachers. Methods: Two groups of pre-service teachers in the second and fourth year of college in the United State and Spain participated in a pilot study and took a questionnaire about testing styles, exam implications, format and attitudes towards the task of assessment. The study is funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in Spain and Valdosta State University in the United States. Findings and Results: The study suggests that pre-service training is necessary to get adapted to a high stakes test based educational system. It also shows that pre-service teachers shape more their ideas as test candidates than as educators. Conclusions and Recommendations: American pre-service teachers are better prepared for test delivery and organization. Besides, the distorted ideas and ideological distance between the testing concepts and the candidates' internal opinions should possibly be revised and more time should be devoted to the process of testing, which is commonly forgotten in language courses.
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