Appendices

Appendix I: Useful Reading and Web Resources on Assessment


General Resource Material for School-based Assessment

  • Blythe, T., Allen, D. & Powell, B. (1999). Looking together at student work: A companion guide to assessing student learning. New York: Teachers College Press.

  • Brown, H.D. (2004). Language assessment: Principles and classroom practices. White Plains, NY: Pearson Education / Longman.

  • Carless, D., Joughin, G, & Liu, N. F. (2007). How assessment supports learning: Learning-oriented assessment in action. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

  • Curriculum Development Institute (2005). Task-based assessment for English language learning at secondary level. Hong Kong: Curriculum Development Institute. Free download, retrieved September 7, 2009, from the World Wide Web: http://cd1.edb.hkedcity.net/cd/eng/TBA_Eng_Sec/index.html

  • Earl, L. (2003). Assessment as learning: Using classroom assessment to maximize student learning. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Corwin Press.

  • Freeman, R & Lewis, R. (1998). Planning and implementing assessment. London: Kogan Page.

  • McKay, P. (2005). Assessing young language learners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • O'Malley, J. M. & Valdez-Pierce, L. V. (1996). Authentic assessment for English language learners: Practical approaches for teachers. New York: Addison-Wesley.

  • SBA Consultancy Team. (2008). Aligning assessment with curriculum reform in junior secondary English language teaching. Hong Kong: Quality Education Fund

  • Stiggins, R. (2001). Student-involved classroom assessment. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.


Relevant Research and Background Reading

  • Assessment Reform Group. (1999). Assessment for learning: Beyond the black box. Free download, retrieved September 7, 2009, from the World Wide Web: http://www.qcda.gov.uk/libraryAssets/media/beyond_black_box2.pdf

  • Assessment Reform Group. (2002). Assessment for learning: 10 principles. Free download, retrieved September 7, 2009, from the World Wide Web: http://www.qca.org.uk/libraryAssets/media/4031_afl_principles.pdf

  • Assessment Reform Group. (2002). Testing, motivation and learning. Free download, retrieved September 7, 2009, from the World Wide Web: http://www.assessment-reform-group.org/TML%20BOOKLET%20complete.pdf

  • Black, P. & Wiliam, D. (1998). Assessment and classroom learning. Assessment in Education, 5(1), 7-74.

  • Black, P. & Wiliam, D. (1999). Inside the black box. London: NFER Nelson. (A complete version was published as a special edition of Assessment in Education, 5(1), 1998).

  • Black, P. & Wiliam, D. (2003). Assessment for learning: Putting it into practice. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

  • Black, P., Harrison, C., Lee, C., Marshall, B. and Wiliam, D. (2003). Assessment for learning: Putting it into practice. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

  • Black, P., Harrison, C., Lee, C., Marshall, B. and Wiliam, D. (2004). Working inside the black box: Assessment for learning in the classroom. London: NFER Nelson.

  • Carless, D. (2005). Prospects for the implementation of assessment for learning. Assessment in Education, 12(1), 39-54.

  • Curriculum Development Institute (2002). Basic education curriculum guide - Building on strength chpt 5. School policy on assessment - Changing assessment practices. Hong Kong: Curriculum Development Institute. Free download, retrieved December 2, 2009, from the World Wide Web: http://cd.edb.gov.hk/basic_guide/BEGuideeng0821/chapter05.html

  • Davison, C (2007). Views from the chalkface: English Language School-based assessment in Hong Kong. Language Assessment Quarterly, 4 (1), 37-68.

  • Davison, C. and Hamp-Lyons, L. (2009) The Hong Kong Certificate of Education: School-based assessment reform in Hong Kong English language education. Ch.18. In L-Y Cheng and A. Curtis (Eds.), English language assessment and the Chinese learner. New York: Routledge.

  • Gan, Z. (2008). Examining negotiation in peer group oral assessment: What are the implications? Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 31(1), 1-20.

  • Gan, Z. , Davison, C., & Hamp-Lyons, L. (2009) Topic negotiation in peer group oral assessment situations: A conversation analytic approach. Applied Linguistics, 30(3), 315-334.

  • Hamp-Lyons, L. (2007). The impact of testing practices on teaching: Ideologies and alternatives. In Cummins, J. & Davison, C. (Eds.), The International Handbook of English language teaching (Vol. 1, pp. 487-504). Norwell, MA: Springer.

  • OECD. (2005). Formative assessment: Improving learning in secondary classrooms. Paris: OECD.

  • Rea-Dickins, P. (2008). Classroom-based language assessment. In E. Shohamy & N. H. Hornberger (Eds.), Encyclopedia of language and education: Language testing and assessment (2nd ed., Vol. 7, pp. 257-271). New York: Springer Science+Business Media LLC.

  • Roos, B., & Hamilton, D. (2005). Formative assessment: A cybernetic viewpoint. Assessment in Education, 12(1), 7-20.

  • Sadler, D.R. (1989). Formative assessment and the design of instructional systems. Instructional Science, 18(2), 119-144.

  • Torrance, H. (1993). Formative assessment: Some theoretical problems and empirical questions. Cambridge Journal of Education, 23(3), 333-343.

  • Wiliam, D. (2001). An overview of the relationship between assessment and the curriculum. In D. Scott (Ed.), Curriculum and assessment (pp. 165-181). Westport, CT: Ablex Publishing.


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