Pre-Service Teachers Literacy of Assessment for Learning

• Published in: Asian Journal of University Education
• Main Author: Putro N.H.P.S.; Damio S.M.; Sukarno; Purnawan A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: UiTM Press 2022
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135517420&doi=10.24191%2fajue.v18i3.18984&partnerID=40&md5=b2c81bae1b2c78c10dc65970bed83829

This study set out to compare the literacy of assessment for learning (AfL) of preservice English teachers in Indonesia and Malaysia. The focus was on how pre-service teachers majoring in English education in the two countries understood the concept of AfL which includes the six dimensions- framework, namely teachers as assessors, teachers as pedagogists, teachers as student partners, teachers as motivators, teachers as learners, and teachers as a stakeholder partner. It involved 451 pre-service English teachers. A total of 42 items of the AfL questionnaire developed by Alonzo (2016) was used in this study. Confirmatory factor analysis with Mplus version 7.2 were used to see whether the pre-service English teachers had the same perception in terms of the six dimensions. Subsequently, MANOVA was used to see whether dimensions that emerged differed significantly by the respondents' gender and their highest expected education. The results showed that the six dimensions of assessment for learning emerged from the data collected from the preservice English teachers in the two countries. Some significant differences on the six dimensions were found in relation to their gender and expected education. © 2022. All Rights Reserved.