Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Types of Testing

Chapter 1

Teaching

The transmission of knowledge.

What is it?

Related to:

Learning

Types of intelligence

Spatial intelligence

Musical intelligence

Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence

Interpersonal intelligence

Intrapersonal intelligence

EQ

Assessment

What is it?

Ongoing process that encompasses a much wider domain.

Types

Informal (Impromptu feedback and unplanned comments)

Formal (Designed exercises and activities to elicit performance; systematic and planned).

Formative (Evaluates students in the process of forming their competences).

Summative (Aims to measure what a student grasped at the end of a course).

Traditional (one shot, timed, oriented to product and non-interactive).

Performance-based (involves oral and written production along interactive tasks; real-world tasks.

Testing

Brief History

1950's: Focused on phonological, grammatical and lexical contrasts

1970's and 1980's: Communicative theories turned more important than the linguistics.

Today: Looking for more authentic, valid instruments that simulate real-world interaction.

Alternative (continuous, untimed, oriented to process and interactive).

Types

Norm-referenced

The score is interpreted in relation to the:

mean (average score)

median (middle score)

standard deviation

percentile rank

Criterion-referenced

Are designed to give test-takers feedback.

Communicative-language

Looks for correspondance between language test-performance and language use.

Authenticity

Strategic competence

Discrete-point

Language can be broken down into components.

listening

Computer-Based

Small-scale home-grown tests available on a website.

Integrative

Are based on the unitary trait hypothesis; indivisible view of language.

Types

Cloze (passage with 6th or 7th word missing)

Dictations (with three stages)

reading

writing

speaking

What is it?

A method of measuring a person's performance, abilites or knowledge in a given domain.

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Presented by: Paola Isabel Nelson Triminio

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