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TESTING, TEACHING AND ASSESING
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Brown, H. D. (2004) Language Assessment: Principles and classroom practices. Longman. Chapter 1: Testing, Assessing, and teaching.
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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
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