We support for a better articulation between K-16 levels
We (Masuyama & Ito) made a presentation "An attempt for a better articulation: developing common assessment tools collaboratively using AP Japanese test" at the 2006 International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE), Columbia University, New York, August 5-6, 2006.
This presentation explored the issues of articulation between college/university levels and secondary school levels from students’ perspectives, inform on-going successful collaborative efforts among K-16 Japanese language teachers in Sacramento, Northern California, and share several strategies to develop a smooth articulation among K-16 levels.
First, we illuminated voices of individuals, who studied Japanese at high schools and continued or discontinued their study at the college/university level. To gain an insightful understanding of students’ perspectives in their learning experience at the high school and college levels, we conducted interviews with them, and the additional data on these participants were collected from the interviews with their former teachers. We examined the data collected from open-ended questions through constant comparative methods, and we explore possible factors why the participants continued or discontinued their learning at colleges.
Then we described the past five year efforts to build a solid collaborative network among the Japanese language teachers at the K-16 levels in the region. At the same time, we found out that although we work together, each teacher's expectations and approaches to assessment are different from each other.
We felt that we could overcome this challenging by using the AP Japanese test as a tool to articulate the Japanese language learning between high school and college/university level in this region.
In this page, we plan to share syllabi, assessment tools, and classroom exercises geared towards the AP Japanese test that many Japanese language teachers here develop together.
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