Assessment

Portfolio Assessment workshop
UD, Summer 2007
Dr. Jorge cubillos
Wed, 6,27,2007 3,00 PM

Dr. cubillos starts his lecture with a question. Are tests necessary?
-Testes are expected components of academic life
- Tests are valuable diagnostic tool
- Tests can enhance the learning possess
- Testes can also interfere with learning
And then he Said “ TEACHER NEED TO ENHANCE AND REFINE THEIR TESTING SKILLS ON A REGULAR BASIS.

What is a test?
Test is a method of measuring person’s ability, knowledge or performance in a given domain.


Prencipples of language assassment




What is Assessment?
-On going process
-Formal or in formal
-Formative or Summative
-Norm –Referenced or Criterion Referenced

And there are: Informal Assessment, Formal Assessment, Formative Assessment, Summative Assessment, Norm –Referenced and
Criterion- Referenced.

3-History of language history testing
-Direct connection with methodological trends
-Grammar translation?
- Audio –lingualism?
- Direct method?

DISCRETE POINT TESTS: Constructed on the assumption that language can be broken down into its component parts and that those parts can be tested successfully.

Integrative tests:
-Oller’s Unitary Trait Hypothesis (1979). Indivisible view of language proficiency.
-Communication approach. Real- World tasks. Quest of authenticity.

PERFORMANCE –BASED ASSESSMENT: Authentic interactive task.
4- CURRENT ISSUES
- New views on intelligence.
- Alternative assessment
- Computer- based testing

5- BASIC ASSESSMENT TRENDS:
- Ongoing assessment
- Performance –based testing
- Test as milestones of progressive
- Positive reinforcement
- Learners autonomy
- Technology-Assisted Assessment


An ideal one is that meets the five principles of test effectiveness:

1- Practicality
2- Reliability (Student –related reliability,
Inter-rater reliability, intra-rater reliability, Test administration reliability)
3- Validity (Content-validity, Consequential validity, Face validity)
4- Authenticity
5- Washback
Most of the students find this workshop interesting and useful, but some think that it would be more useful if it was divided into two parts or more.