TESTING, TEACHING AND ASSESING

TESTING, TEACHING AND ASSESING

1. 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