1. Chapter 24. Language assessment II: Practical classroom applications
Teaching by principles
By H.D. Brown

2. Assessment is more diverse and inform teaching Informal ------- Formal
Test vs Assessment
Assessment is more diverse and inform teaching
Informal Formal
Formative Summative
Process Product
Language Assessment

3. Recent development in testing
Intelligence
Gardner (1983): Linguistics, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal
Sternberg (1988): creative thinking & manipulative strategies
Recent development in testing

4. Recent development in testing
2) Performance-based testing: time- consuming but higher content-validity 3) Interactive language tests: OPI-holistic evaluation by combining scores for 5 levels in 6 categories 4) Traditional vs. Alternative assessment - High practicality vs. meaningful feedback, greater intrinsic motivation & validty
Recent development in testing

5. Principles of Designing Effective Tests
Learners’ test-taking strategies
Face validity
Natural & authentic tests
Washback(Backwash): the effect of tests for further learning-importance of feedback
Principles of Designing Effective Tests

6. Practical Steps in Constructing Tests
Set clear, unambiguous objectives
Draw up test specifications
Draft
Revision
Final-edit & Type it
Utilize feedback
Washback
Practical Steps in Constructing Tests

7. Options of alternative assessment
Self-assessment
Peer-assessment
Journals-oral dialogue journals, reading log, writers’ folders, learning log, grammar note
Conferences
Portfolios
Cooperative test construction
Options of alternative assessment

8. Relationships of assessment & Teaching
Higher motivation to reach milestones
Help sts set goals themselves
Retention of learning through feedback
Achieve benchmark standards in units or module
Sts’ self-evaluation
Learner autonomy
Evaluating teaching effectiveness
Relationships of assessment & Teaching

9. Scrutinizing Alternatives
Maximizing Practicality & Reliability (See p. 480)
Validity
Generalizability
Performance-based Assessment (PBA): See P
Scrutinizing Alternatives