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CHAO, Kuok-Wa. Evaluative practices and the design of assessment among French-as-a-foreign-language teaching staff. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2023, vol.45, n.179, pp.55-72.  Epub 29-Maio-2023. ISSN 0185-2698.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iisue.24486167e.2023.179.60334.

This quantitative research was carried out with 84 French teachers of elementary and secondary grades in Costa Rica. Its objective is to describe the evaluative practices used when teaching French as a foreign language. We specifically proposed to identify the designs of French teaching staff evaluations as well as documenting the methods and tools of assessment employed by this group of teachers. The tool for gathering this data was an online questionnaire. The main results indicate that the teaching staff have a traditional conception of assessment: tools used to evaluate students are exams, daily classwork and homework. Teaching staff base their evaluations on the objectives and content of their courses. They mostly employ collective oral feedback. For this group of teachers assessment is a practice performed individually.

Palavras-chave : Evaluative practices; teachers; french teaching; quantitative research; second language teaching.