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Testing and Assessment Peter Szabo
How do tests make you feel?TEST 1. Choose the correct answer:
WHAT IS A HIPPOGRIFF?a term used in children’s literature to denote colorful and descriptive phraseologya mythological monster having the wings, claws, and head of a griffin and the body of a horseancient Egyptian cuneiform writing commonly found on the walls of tombsa skin transplant from the leg or foot to the hip
Students’ demotivationTEST 2. Choose the correct answers: WHICH ARE THE MAIN DEMOTIVATING FACTORS FOR
STUDENTS? (Dörnyei 1988)
Teacher (personality, commitment, competence, teaching method, lack of encouragement)School facilities (group is too big or not the right level, frequent change of teachers)Reduced self-confidence (experience of failure or lack of success)Negative attitude towards the L2
Testing, assessment, teaching
TEST 3.
Choose the correct answer:
WHICH FIGURE IS CORRECT?
T E A C H I N GASSESSMENT
TESTS
T E S T I N G ASSESSMENT
TEACHING
A S S E S S M E N TT E S T STEACHING
Assessment techniques
TEST 4. Choose the correct answer: WHICH ARE THE MOST COMMON CLASSROOM
ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES?
formal assessmentinformal assessmentformative assessmentsummative assessment
Hope you remember the previous slide…
TEST 5.
Choose the correct answer:
WHICH OF THESE CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES IS THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF MOTIVATION FOR STUDENTS?
Evaluation of classroom tests
TEST 6.
Choose the correct answer: CLASSROOM TESTS MUST BE …
practical, reliable, valid and authentic
funny, creative, and interesting
serious, academic, unbiased and ethical
short, simple, unambiguous and easy to mark
Old-school or alternative assessment?
TEST 7. - Show for „Old-school” and for „Alternative”
• Timed, multiple-choice format• Untimed, free-response format• Focus on the right answer• Open-ended, creative answers• Formative• Summative• Continuous long-term assessment• One-shot, standardized exams• Decontextualized test items• Contextualized communicative tasks
And the right answer…• One-shot, standardized
exams• Timed, multiple-choice
format• Decontexualized test
items• Scores suffice for
feedback• Focus on the „right”
answer• Summative• Oriented to product• Non-interactive
performance• Fosters extrinsic
motivation
• Continuous long-term assessment
• Untimed, free-response format
• Contextualized communicative tasks
• Individualizted feedback and washback
• Open-ended, creative answers
• Formative• Oriented to process• Interactive performance• Fosters intrinsic
motivation
Beyond tests: alternatives in assessment
TEST 8.
Choose the correct answer:
WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTIC OF ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT?
washback
performance-based assessment
reliability
validity
Portfolio assessment
TEST 9.Choose the correct answer: WHAT IS CRADLE?
It’s a Interactive Whiteboard software for portfolio assessment. It’s a special section in the Common European Framework of Reference which specifies portfolios.It’s a small bed for a baby.It’s and acronym that stands for Collecting, Reflecting, Assessing, Documenting, Linking and Evaluating
Self- and peer-assessment
TEST 10.Choose the correct answer: WHAT IS THE MAIN DRAWBACK OF THIS
METHOD?
validityauthenticitywashbackreliability
And a practical example…
Testing and Evaluation Book
for the new Pearson Longman course SUCCESS
(It’s all in the name!)
Words of thanks…
-Fundamental principles
-Classroom-based assessment
-Practical examples
-Comprehensive treatment of assessing all four skills
-Standardized tests
-Ethics of testing
-Alternatives in assessment (title!)
Thank [email protected]