Fostering Innovative Assessment Of Oral Performance Using Students’ Ict Portfolios

الملخص

Oral performance can be demonstrated through the use of different activities which motivate students to speak such as pair and group discussions, vocabulary games, simulations, role plays, storytelling, and brainstorming. Students might think that experiencing all these different activities frequently can really help them develop their oral skills. Yet, they need to know how to assess effectively these oral tasks by themselves since a good assessment is also considered as the key element to know how to develop this type of performance. Hence, this experimental research aims at showing the effect of using students’ ICT portfolios to foster innovative assessment in oral classes and to indicate to what extent students’ self-assessment using their own ICTs can enhance their oral performances. Along this line of thought, 22 students were divided into two groups; ICT portfolio group and non-ICT portfolio group to go through an experimental study. A focused group interview was also undertaken. The results showed a welcoming sign of interest among the students and, the students were excited when using ICT to achieve validity, practicability, consistency, and transparency of learning assessment and self-correction with a great development in students’ oral performances.