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Using Assessment for Understanding and Improving
Language Education Professor John Norris University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Second Language Studies Along with curriculum and instruction, assessment plays a fundamental role in shaping the value and effectiveness of language education programs. Assessment can and should be used for illuminating learners’ needs, monitoring progress, determining outcomes, expressing program identity, empowering language teachers, and for a host of other purposes. However, models of practice for language assessment-and for assessment in higher education-fall short of enabling language educators to respond to the diversity of uses (and demands) for assessment that they face. |