The assessment of digital project in the EFL classroom

• This paper reports on a project aiming at describing professionalpractice in the assessment of collaborative digital projects among a group of inserviceEnglish as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers within the context of asingle workplace, a technologically well-resourced upper secondary school inSweden. In a previous project (Allen & Berggren, 2016), teachers were providedwith an overview of the digital literacy concept as described by Dudeney,Hockly, and Pegrum (2013) as part of an initiative to better integrate informationcommunication technology into their classroom practice. The current studyaddresses the need expressed in previous projects for developing assessmentpractices among the teachers working with digital projects, making use of apractical overview of the assessment of digital projects (Dudeney et al., 2013)trying out an assignment. Afterwards, a focus group interview was conductedfocusing on teachers' experiences of digital project assessment. The resultsindicate that while the teaching and assessment of collaborative digital projectsare not aligned, the teaching of digital literacy making use of digital resource mayaugment ‘traditional’ assessment. Following this conclusion, a necessity of furthercollaboration among EFL teachers appears, aiming at developing the assessmentof the collaborative aspect of digital projects.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

Keyword

digital literacy

assessment

exploratory practice

in-service training

Engelska med didaktisk inriktning

English Education

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