Abstract:
Formative assessment skills are important to teachers in order to be able to evaluate and improve student learning. The purposes of this research were (1) to develop an evaluation form for formative assessment skills, and (2) to compare formative assessment skills among teachers in Sa Kaeo Province. The 130 teachers in the second semester of year 2016 in the Sa Kaeo primary educational service area and the Sa Kaeo secondary education service area were selected by randomized multi-stage random sampling. The research instrument was a five-level rating scale. The data were analyzed using two-way MANOVA.
The results indicated that:
1. The evaluation form of formative assessment skills consisted of five subscales and 85 items: (1) goals for learning, 14 items; (2) providing feedback, 14 items; (3) assessment for learning, 21 items; (4) pedagogical content, 23 items; and (5) learning experience of students, 13 items. It exhibited an item-level CVI of 1.00, scale-level CVI of 1.00, had item discriminations from .215 to .809, and an internal consistency index of .947.
2. Comparison formative assessment skills revealed that there was a statistically significant difference at the .01 level. Female teachers had better skills than male teachers, and the secondary teachers had better skills than the teachers in primary education.