[Assessment 632] Assessment in GERGrotlüschen grotlueschen at uni-bremen.deMon Feb 5 16:34:15 EST 2007
Hello everybody, sorry for not writing fluently in English. I am a German researcher and lurking here since the beginning of the year. I learn a lot from your round-the-world-discussion and I really appreciate your work and exchange of tools. I do not know the netiquette here and if I ask too much questions or make anyone feel uncomfortable, please take it as a beginners mistake, thank you! Well, in your latest mails I thought this really describes what we face here lots of classes, but no clear ways of assessment. As we speak German, we cannot use the ETS PDQ does anything alike exist in other languages? Are there other nations on this list who face the same problem? Do you use standardised tests to check literacy gains? Anyway, we face very much the same problem in GER as well, like Alison said for NZ. You can attend a literacy class, learn nothing (if you feel bored) and in case you get a job later, this would count as success of the literacy training. The most important figure for literacy legitimation is employment. But nobody checks whether your employment has anything to do with literacy. You can be a dishwasher it would count as success. Of course everyday practice is different and adults do learn a lot in the classes and they like the atmosphere (mostly offered by Volkshochschule kind of public institution for adult education). But if authorities question the efficiency of these classes and talk about shortening the funding, there is little in our hands to prove that these classes are successful. Adult learners here fear the testing situation, thats why we have little experience with adult assessment (neither summative nor formative). How do you meet the fears of the learners against tests? Dont they have any? What if you use ETS PDQ, dont people refuse to participate? Do you hand the results to the participants or do you (as teachers, institution, researchers) keep them for reporting? Tons of questions, sorry for that - Yours, Anke Grotlüschen Prof. Dr. Anke Grotlüschen Juniorprofessur für Lebenslanges Lernen grotlueschen at uni-bremen.de Universität Bremen Fachbereich Erziehungs- und Bildungswissenschaften Bibliothekstraße, GW2 Raum A 2100 28359 Bremen www.ifeb.uni-bremen.de Tel. 0421-218-3083 oder 0421-8383 519 Mobil: 0176-2384 7995 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/assessment/attachments/20070205/48be9993/attachment.html
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