Interviewed experimental students overwhelmingly reported liking formative evaluation and improved learning, and no longer feared tests¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Of 20 interviewed students, 90% liked the approach, 85% said they had improved a lot, and 100% said they were no longer frightened by tests. → 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

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End-of-semester interviews with 20 randomly chosen experimental-group students (ten male, ten female) over five days. The article reports "90% of the students liked the approach" and 85% reported improvement; 100% said they were no longer frightened by tests.

"Interviews (see Table 3)with the students indicated that 90% of the students liked the approach, 85% of them said they had improved a lot in their English learning after the teacher adopted the method of formative evaluation"

Discussion¶

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