Formative evaluation was associated with increased interest, confidence and study time among adult ESL students¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? After the experiment, 31 of 40 experimental students reported interest in learning English and 25 reported confidence, up from 6 and 4 respectively before the experiment. → Yi 2012

Evidence¶

Yi 2012¶

Qin Yi. (2012). Empirical Study of Formative Evaluation in Adult ESL Teaching. English Language Teaching, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v5n2p27

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Pre/post Questionnaire 2 administered only to the 40 experimental-class students; Table 1 shows interest rising from 6 to 31 students and confidence from 4 to 25. The author states "the st udents’ attitude change greatly".

"While after the experiment the st udents’ attitude change greatly. Among the 40 students 31 students become interested in learning the language and 25 students build up confidence in the English language learning."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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