This study was conducted to see whether there are varied level of oral questions in formative assessment practices for primary school mathematics subject. Oral questioning is one of the main techniques used in formative assessment.... more
This study was conducted to see whether there are varied level of oral questions in formative assessment practices for primary school mathematics subject. Oral questioning is one of the main techniques used in formative assessment. Different levels of oral questioning that are implemented effectively in formative assessments can help in improving student’s understanding in mathematics subjects. This qualitative study was conducted on two mathematics teachers at a primary school in the district Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The data was obtained through observation techniques, interviews and document analysis. The findings showed that the teachers did not vary the level of oral questioning in their teaching process but rather focused on the use of low-level oral questions which are at the level of remembering and understanding. In addition, this gives students less opportunity to improve their thinking during the mathematics teaching process. The implication of the study is; teachers need to reinforce questioning techniques by focusing on questions that can stimulate student’s high-level thinking.
EFL learners' difficulty in effectively learning and using phrasal verbs and lexical collocations might be attributed to the purely product-oriented teaching and assessment techniques used in public schools. This study aimed to... more
EFL learners' difficulty in effectively learning and using phrasal verbs and lexical collocations might be attributed to the purely product-oriented teaching and assessment techniques used in public schools. This study aimed to investigate the impact of oral questions and written quizzes as two formative assessment (FA) techniques on Iranian learners' learning and retention of phrasal verbs and lexical collocations. The research sample comprised 75 male intermediate EFL high school students, in Marand, East Azarbaijan, Iran, who were selected out of 90 grade four students based on their performance on a Nelson Proficiency test. The three intact classes, each with 25 participants, were randomly assigned as experimental group 1 (EG1) for whom we employed oral questions, experimental group 2 (EG2) who received written quizzes, and the control group (CG) with no process-oriented assessment. After the eight-week treatment, the one-way ANOVA analysis of the three sets of scores obtained from the pre-test, the immediate post-test, and the delayed post-test revealed that EG1 and EG2 outperformed the CG supporting the facilitative role of process-oriented assessment. The findings offer pedagogical implications with regard to FA that will be discussed.
