Testing, Assessing, teaching

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Testing, Assessing and Teaching

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ASSESSING

TESTING

, Is a method of measuring a person ~ ability, know/edge, or performance in a given domain.

Is an ongoing process that encompasse a much wider domain.

Informal Assessment: is unplanned comments abd responses or tasks designed to elicit performance without results ( as a suggestion ).

Components: 1.Method: must be explicit and structured. 2Measure: general ability competencies, onjetives, multi-skills proficiency, individual´s ability, knowledge , performance and domain.

Formal Assessment: are exercises or procedures specifically designed to tap into a storehouse of skilss and knowledge and occur periodically.

Summative Assessment: we use aims to measure or summarize what a student has grasped and occurs at the end of a course or unit of instruction.

Norm-Referenced Test: the purpose in such test is to place test-takers along a mathematical continuun in rank order. ( TOEFL and SAT The scholastic aptitude) 1. Average score 2.Middle score 3.Extent of variance in socres

Formative Assesment: is evaluate our students in the process of FORMING (compentence and skills) with the goal of helping them to continue that growth process.

Criterion-Referenced Test : are designed to give test-takers feedback usually in the form of grades on specific course or lesson objectives.

Performance-based Assessment: Don´t use too much PLETHORA. We must to use, oral production,written production, opem-ended responses, integratedperformance, group performance and interactive tasks.

Discrete-Point testing : are constructed on the assumption that language can be broken down into ist component parts and that those parts can be tested successfully. COMPONENTS: 1. Listening, 2.Speaking 3. Reading 4. Writing. Various units of language ( discrete points) : of phonology/graphonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax, discourse.

Integrative Testing: are cloze test and dictations and reading test passage.

Traditional and Alternative Assessment:

Communicative Language Testing: Language esting need a correspondence between language test-performance and language use.

Computer-Based Testing: are small-scale home grown test available on websites( computer-adaptive test)

ADVANTAGES:

DISADVANTAGES

EXAMPLES

Continuation:

APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TETSING: A brief History.

1. behaviorism and special attetion (1950s).2 Communicative Theories of Language (1970-1980) 3.Simulate realword interaction ( Clark, 1983 p- 432)

NEW VIEWS ON iNTELLIGENCE

fINALLY -KEEP IN MIND THESE BASE PRINCIPLES

And I understand that all of these is TEACHING