Learning-Oriented Assessment: The Learning Dimension

Abstract

While learning-oriented assessment (LOA) situates learning as the ultimate goal of assessment, current assessment practices often fail to reflect the role of learning and its bidirectional interactions with assessment. During Teachers College Columbia University Roundtable in Second Language Studies (TCCRISLS) 2014, a number of remarks were made in order to address the importance of understanding the interrelationship of learning, teaching, and assessment.

Keywords

• Student-centered learning
• Second language acquisition
• SLA
• Ability testing
• Language and languages
• Language
• Methodology
• Teaching language
• Study of language
• Language study
• English language acquisition
• ELA
• Foreign speakres
• Education
• Applied linguistics
• Learning-oriented assessment
• LOA