Vocabulary and High-Stakes Testing with Beverley Jennings
41m | Mar 14, 2024Vocabulary and High-Stakes Testing with Beverley Jennings
In today's episode, Matt Sroka chats with Beverely Jennings about high-stakes testing? How much should our instruction be geared towards preparing students for high-stakes testing? How do we know if what we’re teaching and what we are having students read is preparing them for high-stakes tests? What if preparing students for a high-stakes test is at odds with our goals and objectives for the class? Matt and Beverely explore these questions as they talk the article “A Corpus Study of English Language Exam Texts: Vocabulary Difficulty and the Impact on Students' Wider Reading (or Should Students be Reading More Texts by Dead White Men?)” by Beverley Jennings, Daisy Powell, Sylvia Jaworska, and Holly Joseph.
Beverley Jennings is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Education at the University of Reading in England. Her research is on adolescent reading comprehension, with particular focus on assessment and vocabulary. She has also been an English teacher in secondary (high) schools in England for 20 years.
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