建构主义发展性评价理论在初中英语教学中的应用

论文摘要

自改革开放以来,我国现行英语教学评价存在许诸多问题,因而其改革与创新显得很有必要。本文旨在通过对建构主义发展性评价理论的介绍和基于新课程标准下的英语教学实践研究,以期能够把二者有机地结合起来,为教学评价的改革和发展提供富有建设性的新思路。本人提出了一套较为系统的、开放式的建构主义发展性英语教学评价设计模式；它是一种质性评价,能够为师生提供促进发展的信息；其目标在于改进教学,促进发展及提供决策依据。它是学生在学习过程中的自我建构的发展性评价。此体系强调评价的形式、内容和方法的“多元化”,反映了“以人为本”和“以学生为中心”的素质教育评价理念；涉及评价目的、内容、主体、方式、时间及各种策略的利用,其中“策略”部分阐述了各种实例,为英语教学研究者的评价实践提供借鉴。它还强调发展性评价反馈的必要性。基于新课程标准下的建构主义发展性评价实践研究表明此理论对于学生来说具有一定的促进意义。它能为其提供多种表现的形式和机会,使具有不同特长的学生都有施展自己才华和体验成功的机会,从而使其乐于参与评估活动,激发学习的兴趣,培养自信心,从而全面提高其英语语言能力,促进其可持续发展。当然此发展性评价也存在各种问题,但这些问题可在评价实践中得到改进。笔者认为,建构主义发展性评价的研究与实践对英语语言教学有着积极的意义。

论文目录

• 中文摘要
• Abstract
• 中文文摘
• Synopsis
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1.1 General Introduction
• 1.2 Problems and Weaknesses of Traditional Evaluation
• 1.3 Theoretical and Practical Significance
• 1.4 The organization of the Following Chapters
• Chapter 2 Literature Review
• 2.1 Constructivism
• 2.1.1 Definition
• 2.1.2 Principles of constructivism
• 2.1.3 How Constructivism Impacts learning
• 2.1.4 Principles of learning from constructivism
• 2.2 Evaluation
• 2.2.1 An Overview of Evaluation Development in the USA
• 2.2.2 An Overview of EFL Student Evaluation in China
• 2.2.3 Distinction of assessment and evaluation
• 2.3 New English Curriculum Standard
• 2.3.1 What is the new English Curriculum Standard
• 2.3.2 Principles of the new English Curriculum Standard
• 2.4 Conclusion
• Chapter 3 Developmental Evaluation of Constructivism
• 3.1 Definition of Developmental Evaluation of Constructivism
• 3.2 Functions of Developmental Evaluation of Constructivism
• 3.3 Common Characteristics of Developmental Evaluation of Constructivism
• 3.4 Establishment of Developmental Evaluation of Constructivism
• 3.4.1 General Description
• 3.4.2 An Model Designed with "Multi-"
• 3.4.3 The Purposes---Why to Evaluate?
• 3.4.4 The Contents---What to Evaluate?
• 3.4.5 The Agents---Who Involves in Evaluation?
• 3.4.6 The Ways---How to Carry out Evaluations?
• 3.4.7 The Time---When to Evaluate
• 3.5 Strategies of Developmental Evaluation of Constructivism
• 3.5.1 Observation
• 3.5.2 Conferences and interviews
• 3.5.3 Questionnaires
• 3.5.4 Dialogue journals
• 3.5.5 Testing
• Chapter 4 Experimental Study
• 4.1 Objectives of the Study
• 4.2 Research Design
• 4.2.1 Participants of DEC
• 4.2.2 Strategies of DEC
• 4.3 Experiment Procedure-- Pretest and Posttest
• 4.4 Data Analysis and Results
• 4.5 Feedback of DEC
• Chapter 5 Limitations, Recommendations and Conclusion
• 5.1 Limitations
• 5.2 Recommendations
• 5.3 Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Appendixes
• Acknowledgement