Investigating Teachers’ Attitudes towards the Alignment between Test Administration Modes and Sustainable Development Goals

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1 Assistant Lecturer, Nile University, Egypt

2 Professor of Applied Linguistics and Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research, College of Language and Communication (Alexandria), Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt

3 Lecturer of Linguistics and Language Assessment and Head of Language and Translation Department, College of Language and Communication (Alexandria), Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt

المستخلص

This study aims at investigating teachers’ attitudes towards the alignment between modes of test administration and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) especially goals 4, 12 and 15. The research design is applied, quantitative, and exploratory. The sample of the study consists 70 teachers. A questionnaire is used in this study. The researcher used the questionnaire to investigate the teachers’ perception towards which mode of test administration is more aligned with the SDGs 4, 12 and 15. The results reveal that online tests are more aligned with the Sustainable Development Goal 12 and Goal 15 than paper-based tests. In addition, both online tests and paper-based test are aligned with Sustainable Development Goal four. This research suggests shifting to online tests instead of paper-based tests at not only colleges, but also schools in conducting formative assessment. Future research should aim to explore the attitudes of stakeholders, such as educators, employers, and policymakers, towards both online and paper-based tests.

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