의사소통 과제의 개발 및 적용을 통한 형성적 수행평가의 효과에 관한 연구

Exploring the effects of formative performance assessment by developing communicative tasks in an elementary school

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects which the formative performance assessment based on the communicative tasks has on the learning of English at the elementary school. The subjects were sixth graders at an elementary school in Daejeon. For this study, performance tasks with communicative activities were designed and used for the formative assessment in class. To collect the data for analysis, the student's self assessment, the teacher's observation, the video recording and questionnaires were used. The results of data analysis showed that the formative performance assessment could provide the elementary school students with the various feedbacks to help their learning during the task performance. The formative performance assessment had positive effects on improving the learning competence for all the students of three levels: high, middle and low. In terms of affective factors, it also had some positive effects. So the formative performance assessment proved to be useful in bringing about the effective English learning outcomes for elementary school students.