Costantino, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-8561 and Pastor-Gonzalez, Victoria (2023) Innovative approaches in language assessment: bringing scholarship into the classroom. In: 2023 Regent's Learning, Teaching, Research & Scholarship Conference: "The Interface of Teaching and Research: Abstracts of the Learning Teaching Research and Scholarship Conference 2023", 13th September, 2023, Regent’s University London, UK.

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Over the last few decades, alternative forms of assessments have become more widely accepted in post-compulsory education. This shift is in response to the shortcomings of traditional assessment, especially when applied to educational contexts facing an increasingly diverse student population and undergoing changes that have emerged during the pandemic. One major benefit highlighted in literature is that testing alternatives are learning opportunities themselves. This presentation discusses two examples of language assessment implemented in two language education settings in higher education: Regent’s University London and the University of Greenwich. These examples illustrate the tenets of alternative forms of assessment, as well as the challenges faced by stakeholders. First, the presentation situates alternative assessment in the contest of language learning testing practices. Alternative assessment can capture authentic performance-based tasks, allow flexibility for diverse intelligences and ways of learning, lessen the stress learners experience in testing settings, and give a more accurate record of their skills and abilities. Second, we shall introduce examples of alternative assessments from both Regent’s University and the University of Greenwich that clearly illustrates several of the affordances previously outlined. Additionally, we shall detail the teacher enquiry process of designing open-ended tasks to engage learners cognitively and effectively as part of a language portfolio working as both formative and summative assessment, that is as assessment of learning and assessment for and as learning. Finally, the presentation discusses the challenges related to reliability, validity, and fairness in language testing. It aims to open a discussion about the sustainability of assessment practices in light of current technological advances.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	alternative language assessment, language portfolio, language testing, learner engagement, sustainability
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Related URLs:	http://www.linkedin.com/posts/regentsuni...
Last Modified:	30 Jul 2025 10:19
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/50872

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