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No comparable teacher-friendly instrument for assessing oracy existed before the Cambridge Oracy Assessment Toolkit

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Evidence · 1 study · design r? · q1
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q1 i? According to the authors, no comparable teacher-friendly instrument for assessing oracy of the kind they developed existed. → Mercer 2016

Evidence

Mercer 2016

Mercer, N, Warwick, Paul, & Ahmed, A. (2016). An oracy assessment toolkit: Linking research and development in the assessment of students' spoken language skills at age 11-12. Learning and Instruction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2016.10.005

q1 · i? · design · r?

The authors' assertion in the article's abstract about the novelty of the Toolkit and its Skills Framework. They state that 'no comparable, 'teacher-friendly' instrument of this kind exists'; no systematic search evidence for this gap claim is reported in the supplied text.

"together with a unique Skills Framework for identifying the range of skills involved in using talk in any specific social situation. As we explain, no comparable, 'teacher-friendly' instrument of this kind exists."

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type claim
id no-comparable-teacher-friendly-oracy-instrument
title No comparable teacher-friendly instrument for assessing oracy existed before the Cambridge Oracy Assessment Toolkit
description No comparable teacher-friendly instrument for assessing oracy existed before the Cambridge Oracy Assessment Toolkit
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 2016
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