Language Assessment

Collects information & makes decision about language learner ability
1. Test performance
2. Score
3. Learner's capacity
4. Inference
Types
1. Proficiency Assessment
  1. Skill in real world + context
2. Achievement Assessment
  1. Learning in a program (grades)
Purposes
1. Curriculum
2. Communication
3. Accountability
Test method
1. Elicit particular response in test-takers
2. Characteristics
  1. Settings
  2. Rubrics
  3. Input
  4. Output
  5. Relation between input & output
  6. Related to Validation
    1. Sub-types
      1. Content
      2. Criterion-related
      3. Construct
3. Test analysis
  1. Item difficulty
    1. Test construct
    2. Examinees tested
    3. Test use
  2. Correlation
    1. Similarity of tests measuring the same construct
Construct (unconnected to curriculum)
1. Ability/Performance
  1. Ability
    1. Abstract demostration of knowledge
  2. Performance
    1. Actual performance of relevant tasks
2. Specific/General purpose
  1. Specific
    1. Test-tasks represent tasks in target situation
  2. General
    1. Assesses language in a non specific context
3. Perspective and Specificity
Washback
1. Influence of testing in teaching
Alternative assessment
1. Observation
2. Portfolios
3. Self-assessment
4. Learning journals
5. Project work
6. Peer-assessment
7. Teacher-developed tasks & simulations
8. Outcome-based assessment

Resource summary

	Created by Jenny Valdez about 8 years ago