Oral assessment in Slovene at the primary school level

Assessment is an inevitable part of teaching in every subject and is one of the most demanding and responsible parts of the educational process. In the master's thesis, we investigated and evaluated oral assessment in Slovene at the primary school level. One of the fundamental goals of Slovene is to develop the student's ability to communicate in the Slovenian (literary) language, which is why oral assessment is an important part of Slovenian lessons. Teachers should be professionally qualified for quality and valid assessment of knowledge in several different ways. We focused in more detail on oral knowledge assessment, because the recommendations are often directed at other forms of assessment, especially standardized tests. In the master's thesis, we wanted to find out what and how teachers evaluate orally Slovene at the primary school level. We were interested in whether this assessment is of good quality and whether the teachers adhere to the laws, guidelines and recommendations for assessment. We used a quantitative research approach. Using a questionnaire for teachers and a questionnaire for 4th and 5th grade students, we obtained data that we interpreted using descriptive statistics and answered 18 research questions. Through the research, we found that the majority of teachers adhere to certain guidelines, recommendations and principles of assessment and articles of the Rules on Examination and Assessment in Primary Schools. Teachers also include certain elements of educational testing and evaluation