Zusammenfassung der Ressource
TESTING, TEACHING AND ASSESING
- WHAT IS A TEST?method of
measuring a person's abillty
knowledge, or performance in a
given domain
- ASSESSMENT AND TEACHING
- Assessment
is an
ongoing
process in
the task of
marking,
observing
and
provides to
a student
instruction
- FORMAL
- exercises or procedures
designed to evaluate skills
and performance
- INFORMAL
- Unplanned and real feedback
- Embedded in classrooms
taks without recording
results
- FORMATIVE
- Evaluate the process of
forming the abilities for
continuing rhe process
- Imrpve language learners ability
- SUMMATIVE
- WHhat the students learned and did
during a course
- NORM-REFEREMCED TESTS
- Score is related to an average score
- Money and efficiency are primary concerns in this test
- CRITERION-REFERENCED TEST
- Give test-takers feedback
- Emphasis on classroom based assessment
- APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TESTING
- History
- behavourism and contrastive analysis
- Using specific language elements
:phonological, gramatical and lexical
- 1970-80: communicatibe theories
and integrative view of testing
- Authentic and
valid tests for a
better
interaction
- DISCRETE-POINT AND INTEGRATIVE TESTING
- Discrete point test
- Based on the aasumption
that language can't be
broken down
- Every part can be tested succesfully
- Integrative test
- Cloze tests and dictations
- indivisible language by fourth skills
- COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TESTING
- Correspondence between language test and use
- taks tend to be artificial,
contrived and unlikely to
real life expectancy
- Strategic competence:
- Ability to employ communicative strategies
- Language proficiency
- Where. when. how, with whom and why.
- PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT
- Involves all the 4 skills of performance and interactive tasks
- Higher content validity
- Difficulty to recignize formal and informal assessment
- Tasks and approach real-life language use
- CURRENT ISSUES IN CLASSROOM TESTING
- Create communicative
performance based
assessment rubrics
- NNEW VIEWS IF INTELLIGENCE
- Perform linguistic and logically a problem
- Spatial, musical,
bodily-kinesthetic,
interpersonal and
intrapersonal
- Create and
manipulate
strategies as part
of the intelligences
- Avoid objectivity
- negotiate and
understand the
meaning learning
processes
- COMPUTER BASED TESTING
- Computer-adaptive test
- Classroom based testing
- self-directed testing
- practice of upcoming tests
- TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT
- CONTEXTUALIZED. COMMUNICATIVE,
PERFORMANCE BASED ASSESSMENT