Interactive+Course+Outline

Course Outline

Brown, H. D. (2004). Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices. London: Pearson Esl. ||= Classroom presentation ||= Homework (MOODLE) ||= Extension (FACEBOOK) || Tests, Assessment, and Teaching ||= Brown, Chapter 1 (pp.3-14) || Introduction to Assessment And Testing Ppt Presentation || Course expectations
 * = Week ||= Date ||= Topic ||= Course Book
 * 1 || Sep 29 || ** Introduction to the course **

Language Theory || ABC's of Education - Download free content from University of Alabama on iTunes || Practicality, reliability, validity, authenticity, washback ||= Brown, Chapter 2 (pp.19-37) || Language Assessment Principles || Assessment Vocabulary (ongoing) || Key Ideas in Validity and Reliability for Teachers || Test types, test specification ||= Brown, Chapter 3 (pp.43.54) || Test Design Presentation || ETS versus PTE - group research/ discussion
 * 2 || Oct 6 || ** Language assessment principles **
 * 3 || Oct 13 || ** Designing language tests **

Form groups || Listen to Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences, from Edutopia on iTunes || Standardized Testing Ppt Presentation || [|Online tests] - create account and simple test.
 * 4 || Oct 20 || ** Designing language tests (contd) **test items, scoring, grading ||  ||   || Finish EAQUALS/ALTE ePortfolio and DIALANG ||   ||
 * 5 || Oct 27 ||= Standards based assessmentWIDA, CEF-ALTE, teacher standards, consequences, test bias, test-driven teaching, critical language testing ||= Brown, Chapter 4 (pp. 66-83) || [[image:http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=df50ca7bb3b4176fe671e1e0354bb095&w=90&h=90&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent.authorstream.com%2Fimages%2F259267_633918684337318020-118_88.jpg link="@http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/steveneufeld-259267-standardized-testing-efl413-education-ppt-powerpoint/"]]

Washback effect of standardized tests - survey || [|Test on testing concepts]

EFL413---TWEETS on Standardized-Testing

Shohamy - Power of Tests. Occasional Paper || Performance-based, portfolio, journal, self- and peer-assessment, c-tests, computer graded || Brown, Chapter 10 (pp. 251-278) || === === Alternative Assessment PPt Presentation || [|Blended learning liaison with Practice Teachers] || Comprehensive Assessment: An Overview | Edutopia www.edutopia.org Performance assessments offer a richer, more holistic approach to evaluating what students know and can do. || types of listening, types of tasks: intensive, responsive, selective, extensive || Brown, Chapter 6 (pp. 117-137) || Slidecast of the presentation about assessing listening. This includes the full set of examples of extensive listening, which we didn't look at in class yesterday. Assessing Listeningt Ppt Presentation ||  || Great miniguide to performance-based assessment: @http://www.carla.umn.edu/assessment/mlpa/pdfs/miniguide.pdf
 * 6 || Nov 3 ||= **Alternative assessment**
 * 7 || Nov 10 || ** Assessing Listening **

When it comes to building your test, this page in CARLA is a great resource. The have a 'virtual item bank' which will give you lots of ideas for developing your tests. You just choose the language (interesting to note that Turkish is a feature language ot learn in America), the level and the skill (mode), and voila,...  you get an instant set of questions to give you ideas.

The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) : Assessment of a Second Language : ||
 * 8 || Nov 17 || Holiday ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 9 || Nov 24 ||= **Midterm** ||  ||   || [|Evaluate the test] - assignment to evaluate seven multiple choice questions.

[|DISCUSSION 3: Standardized testing] ||  || types of reading, genres, types of tasks: perceptive, selective, interactive, extensive ** Lab: Computer based testing ** MOODLE (Hot Potatoes, item analysis) || Brown, Chapter 8 (pp. 186-215) || Assessing Reading Ppt Presentation || Use your MOODLE from KeyToSchool to develop your computer-based test. If you don't have a KeyToSchool MOODLE, ask one of your colleagues to use theirs. Alternatively, you can get your own MOODLE at http://ninehub.com ||  || types of speaking, types of tasks: imitative, intensive, responsive, interactive, extensive, computer-graded ||  || ====== ====== **Assessing Speaking Ppt Presentation** www.authorstream.com ||  ||   || types of writing, types of tasks: imitative, intensive (controlled), responsive, extensive, computer-graded ||  || www.authorstream.com ||
 * 10 || Dec 1 || ** Assessing reading **
 * 11 || Dec 8 || ** Assessing Speaking **
 * 12 || Dec 15 || ** Lab: Computer based testing ** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 13 || Dec 22 ||= ** Assessing Writing **
 * Assessing Writing_Lecture Ppt Presentation**

[|DISCUSSION 4: Robotester]
||  || enGrade, Excel. item analysis in MOODLE ||  || http://app.ncc.metu.edu.tr/moodle/course/view.php?id=91#section-4 ||
 * 14 || Dec 29 ||= ** Lab: Keeping grades **

[|Language Aptitude Testing - OPTIONAL MOODLE discussion]
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 * 15 || Jan 5 || ** Course round up ** ||  || [[image:http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs720.ash1/162038_174098492629609_2302982_s.jpg link="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174098492629609&index=1"]]

[|EFL413 - Course roundup]
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 * ||  || Critical Language testing: Power of tests, Code of ethics

Grading and student evaluation selecting criteria, absolute or relative, letter grades, rubrics ||  ||   ||   ||   ||