Participant Evaluation of an Online Course on Language Assessment Literacy

Abstract

This chapter reports on participant evaluations of an online professional development course on language assessment literacy (LAL) for practitioners interested in the field. With the introduction and widespread of online courses following the Covid era, the need to evaluate the effectiveness of the new modalities and platforms to deliver these courses as well as the online course content has become inevitable. To serve for this purpose, this chapter presents the analysis of data collected from a multinational online community of language teachers through the end-of-course questionnaire (n=13) and focused interviews (n=6). The results of the analysis suggested three main issues indicated by the course participants: learning in an online community, course design, and course content. The chapter which discusses the emerging sub-themes has implications for teacher educators, researchers, and course designers interested in learning about the participant perspective towards an online course in a multicultural LAL context.