Tensions between validity and outcomes: teacher assessment of written work of recently arrived immigrant ESL students

• DOI: 10.1191/0265532204lt285oa
• Publication Date: 2004-06-28T21:58:52Z
• Authors: Sophie Arkoudis; Kieran O’Loughlin
• Keywords: Alternative assessment; Writing assessment; Validity

This article reports on a collaborative study involving ESL 1 teachers in an Australian English Language Centre as they work through some of their concerns about reliability and validity assessment practices. The focus this is how with the Curriculum Standards Framework (CSF) tool. discussion focuses issues relating to limitations CSF way which engage produce meaningful accurate reflective students’ progress. teachers’ stories highlight state-mandated policies are translated into teacher carried out local educational contexts. Harré’s positioning theory (1999) used framework for interpreting epistemological authority within exigencies education system.