讲座一

时间：2015 年6 月4 日，星期四，（14:00-16:30）

地点：北京师范大学，后主楼914 室

讲座专家：Chris Davison （UNSW）

讲座题目： Enhancing Teacher Assessment Literacy: Building Assessment for Learning Communities (Workshop)

Abstract:

The School of Education at the University of New South Wales, in partnership with Educational Assessment Australia, has developed an innovative e-based set of assessment tools and advice to assist teachers in developing pedagogically sound and useful approaches to assessing the English language development of ESL students across all years in Victorian schools. This workshop will outline the aims and rationale for this project and its theoretical underpinnings in assessment for learning, a concept first used in the UK in the late 1980s, and widely promoted through the work of the Assessment Reform Group (Assessment Reform Group, 1999, 2001; Black & Wiliam, 1998), and its Vygotskian notions of dynamic and scaffolded student and teacher learning.

Participants will then work through a range of activities designed to help develop teacher assessment literacy as well as enhance the trustworthiness of their assessments. The various challenges involved in supporting teacher-assessors with variable levels of language knowledge and skills and assessment literacy will also be explored.

温馨提醒：参加本次工作坊的同学们需自带电脑。

讲座二

时间：2015 年6 月5 日， 星期五，（14:00-16:30）

地点：北京师范大学，后主楼914 室

讲座专家：Chris Davison （UNSW）

讲座题目：Oral Language Skills Development through Assessment for Learning (Lecture)

Abstract:

Competency with spoken language is a crucial prerequisite for effective communication and for academic achievement (Goh & Burns, 2012, Thornbury, 2012). However, speaking is considered the most challenging of the four skills in learning and teaching a second or foreign language. Students learning a foreign language will have varying levels of oral language proficiency that will impact upon the degree to which they are able to communicate effectively and participate in learning.

Providing opportunities for constructive classroom talk and the development of effective oral communication skills will support foreign language students’ cognitive development and language learning as well as reading comprehension and writing　skills. This presentation draws on the researcher’s recent work　with schools and educational systems in Singapore, Hong Kong,

Brunei and Australia to show how oral language skills development can be integrated into learning and teaching using the key principles of assessment for learning, including feedback and self and peer assessment, and web-based assessment resources including annotated audio and video-records and digital portfolios.

专家介绍：

Professor Chris Davison, a specialist in language education and school-based assessment, has been Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education, UNSW, since September 2008. She was previously Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Education at University of Hong Kong, where she remains an Honorary Professor. Chris has published extensively on English language and literacy development, language and content curriculum, and language assessment, including in Language Testing and Language Assessment Quarterly. She is a series editor for Springer’s new series on English language education,　Editor in Chief of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, and also editor and contributor to a two volume handbook on teaching English internationally (with Jim Cummins). She has undertaken large-scale curriculum and assessment projects in Hong Kong, Singapore and in Brunei, and is currently leading the research and development of a teacher-based assessment literacy framework and online assessment tools for EAL learners　in Victorian schools, funded by the Department of Education and Early Childhood (DEECD), the Catholic Education office and Independent Schools Victoria.