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B English Teaching Assessment Gjl 2020/2021 Assessment

B English Teaching Assessment Gjl 2020/2021 Assessment

Course Description: English Teaching Assessment

This course will discuss about assessment of students’ English achievement, how to design and how to create the instrument to assess it artificially and authentically. This knowledge and skills are of paramount importance for those who deal with English language teaching and learning.

The competences to be achieved through this course are that students understand the evaluation of English learning and that they are able to develop English language assessment instruments: English tests and non-tests by reviewing the principles of evaluation of language learning and learning, types of English achievement instruments, practicing identifying types of language learning evaluation instruments, assessing types of language tests, practicing identifying good language tests according to indicators of learning success and to the principles of developing language tests, practicing designing language tests that are in accordance with indicators of learning success, practice making listening, speaking, reading, writing, structure and vocabulary test items according to indicators of learning success, assessing the principles of language test validation, assessing the characteristics of a good language test, practicing identifying good language tests, by practicing to carry out language test validation (try-out, option analysis, difficulty level analysis, discrepancy, reliability, validity), practice revising language tests based on validation results, students study the principles of implementing language tests, the types of assessment instrument that are in accordance with the indicators of learning success, practicing designing learning outcome evaluation instruments, reviewing various ways of evaluating students' language performance, practicing making language performance tasks for students, practicing giving tasks to students, practicing assessing learning outcomes, practicing analyzing students’ work results, reviewing the concepts and methods of assessing the teaching and learning process, practicing making various ways of assessing the teaching and learning process, practicing giving an assessment of the abilities of peers, practicing peer assessments of the abilities of peers in practicing English learning techniques, practicing peer assessment to their peer’s ability in practicing making various types of teaching and learning product evaluations, practicing collecting data (questionnaires, portfolios, interviews) for basic self-reflection, practicing carry out self-reflection and practice diagnosing the results of evaluation of learning processes and products, and practice diagnosing the results of performance evaluation on their own.

 

The topics which will be covered in this subject are:

  1. Concept of assessment, purposes, and kind of assessment by various bases reasons,
  2. Concepts of authentic assessment, Purposes for authentic assessment, Kinds of authentic/performance assessment
  3. Kinds of artificial assessment and Planning for artificial assessment

Kinds of artificial assessment

Teaching objectives/goals

Bloom’ s taxonomies

Validity and Reliability of artificial assessment

Level of difficulty

Discriminating power

Table of specification

  1. Planning for authentic/performance assessment

Teaching objectives/goals

Revised Bloom’ s taxonomies

Validity and Reliability of performance assessment

Testing Vocabulary

 

What has to be tested; content and construct validity

Test forms of Vocabulary

Analysis of vocabulary test

  1. Practice writing English Vocabulary Items
  2. Trying out the English vocabulary test, scoring, and analyzing the property of the test
  3. Planning speaking assessment to asses speaking performance, scoring rubric for speaking task
  4. Practice writing the tasks to assess speaking performance
  5. Practice writing a scoring rubric for assessment of speaking performance and Practice scoring students’ speaking performance
  6. Testing Grammar

What has to be tested; construct validity

Test forms of grammar

Analysis of grammar test items

  1. Practice Writing grammar test
  2. Trying out grammar test and scoring, and analyzing the property of the test items
  3. Testing Reading Comprehension

What has to be tested, construct validity

Test forms of reading comprehension

Analysis of  reading comprehension test items

  1. Practice writing reading comprehension test items
  2. Trying out reading comprehension test, scoring, and analyzing the property of the test
  3. Testing Listening Comprehension: What has to be tested, construct validity, Test forms of listening comprehension, and Analysis of  reading comprehension test items
  4. Practice writing listening comprehension tests
  5. Trying out listening comprehension test and scoring, and analyzing the property of the test items
  6. Planning writing tasks to asses writing performance; construct validity, scoring rubrics for writing and scoring of writing performance; Components of scoring rubric of writing performance; Writing a scoring rubric  for assessment of writing performance
  7. Practice writing the tasks to assess writing performance;
  8. Trying out a writing task for assessment of writing performance and Scoring students’ writing performance
  9. Statistical Test Item Analysis manually and computerized: concepts and tools
  10. Practice analysis: Analisis of Test Validity, Analysis of Test Reliability, Analysis of  test difficulty level, Analysis of  test discriminating power, and Analysis of distractor effectiveness
  11. Interpretation of score interval, frequency, Mean, Median, Mode, Standard Deviation, Z-score, normal curve
  12. Concept of Self assessment, Peer Assessment, anecdotal records, and portfolio assessment, and Planning for the use of Self assessment, Peer Assessment, anecdotal records, portfolio assessment
  13. Practice conducting Self assessment
  14. Practice conducting Peer Assessment
  15. Practice conducting anecdotal records
  16. Practice conducting portfolio assessment

 

 

 

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