Language Assessment Portfolio

1 Commercial Tests

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• IELTS
  • IELTS Writing Summary
  • IELTS Summary
• iBT TOEFL
  • TOEFL
  • TOEFL Summary

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2 Alternative Assessments: Formative & Self-Assessments

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• Formative Vs. Summative Assessments
  • Does it Matter?
• Alternative Assessments
  • Principles
  • Portfolios, Power, Ethics
  • Alternative Vs. Traditional Research
  • Alternative Vs. Traditional Figure

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3 Assessing Skills

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3.1 Frameworks

• Wesche 1983
• Swain’s (1984) 4 Principles

3.2 Skills

• Reading
  • Teaching and Testing
• Listening
  • Assessing Listening Abilities
• Speaking
  • Assessing Speaking
• Grammar
  • Teaching and Testing
    
• Vocabulary
  • Teaching and Testing
    
• Writing
  • Teaching and Testing

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4 Websites

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• Hiking Blogs
  • Pinnacles National Park
  • Point Lobos, Monterey
• Outdoor Podcasts
  • King’s Canyon Outdoors

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5 Test Items

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5.1 Item Types (formats)

• Multiple-choice
  • Example Test
• Partial dictation: students listen to and write a portion of a text, rather than an entire text
  • Example Test
• Standard dictation: students listen to and write an entire text
• Graduation dictation: a dictation with increasing bursts
• Matching: should contain more items than vocabulary words provided
  • Example Test
• Role-play
• Story retelling
• Cloze test: Students fill-in-the-blank within a paragraph
  • Example Test
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• Dictocomp: students listen to a text entirely before writing a summary of what they heard
  • Example Test
• True / False
  • Example Test
• Labeling
  • Example Test
• Free-response
  • Example Test
• Short-response
  • Example Test
• Summarizing
• C-test: students fill-in-the-blank for single letters that are missing
  • Example Test
  • Validity Study
• Fill-in-the-blank: students fill in missing words in sentences
  • Example Test
• Interview: back and forth question and answer
• Cloze elide: students find random words that are inappropriately inserted in a passage/paragraph
  • Example Test
• Word bank
  • Example Test
• Dehydrated sentences: students connect words (which don’t have to be in order) to make a sentence
  • EX. Man / store / eggs / head

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6 Class Notes

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• History
  • Trend Paradigm
• Exploring New Frameworks
• Background Knowledge / Reading & Cloze Family
• Assessing Communicative Competence
• Eliciting Speech Samples & Assessing Speaking
• Assessing Learner’s Writing
• Multiple-Choice Item Format & Item Analysis (I.F. & I.D.)
• Reliability & Dependability in Language Assessment
• Language Test Validity
• Validity & Reliability in Language Assessment
• Alternative Assessments
• Specific Purpose Testing (E.S.P.)
• Content-based Assessment
• Self-Assessment
• Glossary

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