1. This speech/presentation is authorized by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and the Department of Defense. Contents of this presentation are not necessarily the official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, DoD, Department of the Army, or DLIFLC. Receiving Formative Feedback through the Online Diagnostic Assessment (ODA) System: A Guide to the Web-based Self Assessment Tool Sun-Kwang Bae, Ph.D. Department of Online Diagnostic Assessment Curriculum Development Division DLIFLC

2. Overview of the Online Diagnostic Assessment (ODA) System ODA Specifications and Structure ODA System Live-demonstration Diagnostic Profile Sample Q & A Presentation Agenda

3. To provide formative feedback on a learner’s strength and weakness Web-based, immediate feedback (Diagnostic Profile) Reading and listening skills Criterion-referenced (ILR proficiency guidelines) Adaptive to the learner’s performance Machine scoring of CRT items Online Diagnostic Assessment

4. ODA Languages Available LanguagesReading AssessmentListening Assessment Arabic  Levantine ArabicIn validation Iraqi ArabicIn validation Chinese  Farsi  In validation Korean  Russian  Spanish  In validation Tagalog  Under development Forthcoming: Balochi (LC only), Brazilian Portuguese, Dari, French, Pashto, Somali, and Urdu are also in validation or under development.

5. ODA Basic Unit of Assessment Testlet Passage (ILR Level 1 to 3) Content Items Main Proposition Supporting Proposition 1 Supporting Proposition 2 (ILR Level 2 or higher) Linguistic Items Lexicon Structure Discourse (ILR Level 1+ or higher)

6. ODA Procedure Content Items Determine comprehension and ILR level Linguistic Items Probe reasons for failing comprehension questions

7. ODA Procedure Login Entry Level Set Higher Set Lower Set Up/Down criteria: Pass/Fail in a set of three testlets Test ends when a learner fails two sets

8. ODA Procedure Successful Level 3 Testlets (1 Set) Probe Level 6 Testlets (2 Sets) Diagnostic Profile Diagnostic Data Collection Testlet Meta Data: ILR level, topics, task types, grammar features (language-specific), speech processing (listening only)

9. Diagnostic Profile Milestones (ILR proficiency level): Current & target level estimates Progress check: Individual history page Data breakdown by task and topic Language-specific grammar feature breakdown Speech processing data in listening

10. ODA Website & DP Samples http://oda.lingnet.org Diagnostic Profile Samples DP 1 (RC – Student A) DP 2 (LC – Student A) DP 3 (LC1 – Student B) DP 4 (LC2 – Student B)