Against the background of the digital teaching reform of college English and the in‑depth popularization of Outcomes‑Based Education (OBE), short videos have become an important carrier to improve the efficiency and learning experience of English listening teaching due to their lightweight, situational, multimodal and highly immersive characteristics. At present, the evaluation of college English listening teaching is generally plagued by prominent problems such as single method, emphasis on results over process, neglect of competency output and learning process tracking, and delayed feedback. Guided by the core concept of OBE, based on the practice of short video teaching in college English listening, this study constructs a process evaluation system covering the whole process of pre‑class, in‑class and post‑class, and selects non‑English major undergraduates from Northwest Minzu University as research objects to carry out a one‑semester controlled teaching experiment. Data were collected through pre‑ and post‑listening tests, learning motivation questionnaires, autonomous learning ability questionnaires and classroom observations, and statistically analyzed with SPSS 26.0 to examine the effect of the evaluation system on students’ listening performance, learning motivation and autonomous learning ability. The results show that the OBE‑oriented process evaluation system can significantly improve students’ English listening application ability, learning initiative and autonomous learning level, effectively promote the transformation of listening teaching from “knowledge assessment” to “competency output”, and provide replicable and generalizable empirical evidence and practical paths for the evaluation reform of college English listening teaching.

Zhang Hanbin. An Empirical Study on the Process Evaluation System of Short Video Teaching in College English Listening under the OBE Concept. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 4: 72-80. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2026.080411.

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