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TYPES OF ASSESSMENT

ASSESSMENT

TESTING

A kind of snapshot on the ability or condition of a language learner.

It uses an instrument that measures a skill, a database or a content domain.

MEASUREMENT

QUANTITATIVE: Data found on tests, rubrics and checklists. It´s merely based on numbers.

Qualitative: Description of the absorbing performance

FORMAL

INFORMAL

Systematic planned snapshot of students´learning.

Formative: Tentative evaluation of student learning to provide a snapshot of current learning

Unplanned observations of students activity.

Paper tests, formal speech, final exam or presentatio

Using a particular skill in whci the teacher hears the student using it.

TESTS AND ITS TYPES

ISSUES IN LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT

NORM-REFERENCED

CRITERION-REFERENCED

Test takers are evaluated against the group where mean, media or rank are identified.

ACHIEVEMENT TESTS

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS

PLACEMENT TESTS

Specific criteria adn information are being tested .

Measures KSA compared to other SLA and native speakers. TOEFL test is an example of this

PROFICIENCY TESTS

Measures skills, knowledge and abilities.

Find out where the learners are and what are their strenghts and weaknesses lexical abilities

Measures the likelihood of language learning success. It is not so popular as it used to be.

Tests that will only focus on certain databases.

Integrative test will focus on the whole language

Segmented tests wiññ focus on only one skill or area

These approaches are thought to be a better type of assessment

Organizational competences

Pragmatic competence

Grammar, vocabulary, cohesion, syntax, phonology .

illocutionary competence

Ideational, manipulative and imaginative functions

Sociolinguistic competence

Dialects, register and naturalness

Performance- based assessment

Designed opportunities to demonstrate language proficiency

Mock interviews, essays, oral presentations,

Task-based assessment

Measures language KSA

Topics involved in assessment

Multiple intelligences, Content Based Instruction, Computer Adaptative Testing Corpus Linguistics

Use of asessment

Guideposts and diagnostics

- To increase motivtion

To develop autonomy

To assess language teaching effectiveness

Communicative Language Testing

REFERENCES

Brown, H. D. & Priyanvada, A. (2010). Language Assessment: Principles and classroom Practices

Retrieved from https://youtu.be/L_spva8QbXs

Summative: Used for the end of a course or