고등학교 영어 교실에서의 수업 활동과 평가의 연계 탐색

Exploring alignment of instruction and assessment in high school English classes

The purpose of the present paper is to explore the actual condition of aligning instruction and assessment in high school English classes. Aligning instruction and assessment is important in that if the contents and the activities dealt in the classes are not adequately aligned with the assessment, the students’ motivation and participation in the classes may decrease. In order to explore the actual condition of the alignment of instruction and assessment in the high school English classroom, class observations and focus-group interviews were implemented. The results of the class observation showed that when there is active students’ participation in the classroom activities, these activities and the assessment are well aligned. However, when the class is composed of teacher-oriented lectures, the alignment of the instruction and the assessment is inadequate. In the interviews, the teachers said that it is difficult to make sufficient time for the activities and the assessment in the classes due the contents that they have to cover during the semester. In order to enhance instruction and assessment alignment, developing teachers’ competence in aligning classroom activities and the assessment is necessary.