spanish assessment smackdown
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Spanish Assessment Smackdown. What are two of the 5 important aspects of objectives? Hint , look at p . 22 Genesee and Upshur 1. CO’s = general 2. CO’s = single domain of language learning 3. CO’s should not overlap, - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Spanish Assessment Smackdown
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• What are two of the 5 important aspects of objectives? Hint, look at p. 22 Genesee and Upshur
• 1. CO’s = general• 2. CO’s = single domain of language learning• 3. CO’s should not overlap, • 4. CO’s should refer to student performance not teacher
performance• 5. CO’s should refer to products of language learning or processes
of language performance.
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• What are the three M’s of central tendency and how are each defined?
• Mean, i.e. average of each score• Mode, most frequently occurring• Median, ‘middle’ score
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• Get out a piece of paper and a writing utensil.• Calculate by hand the three M’s for the
following scores. Student ScoreArnaldina 5Amanda 7Airikah 8Arnulfo 9Wakovia 9
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• Get out a piece of paper and a writing utensil.• Calculate by hand the three M’s for the
following scores. Student ScoreArnaldina 5Amanda 7Airikah 8Arnulfo 9Wakovia 9Mean 7.6Median 8Mode 9
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• What does a standard deviation tell us? • The typical distance of a score from the mean.
(Hughes, p. 26)
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• Find a sweet definition of washback or backwash in one of your texts.
• P. 53 Hughes, “Backwash is the effect that tests have on teaching or learning.”
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• What does a facility value provide information about?
• Specific items on a test (Hughes, 225)
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• In language testing we often discuss the term validity.
• Define validity.• When a test measures what it intends to
measure. (hughes p. 26)
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• What does a cloze test supposedly measure?• Overall language ability (Hughes p. 187 last
line first paragraph)
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• What is one simple way to calculate a facility value?
• Number correct divided by the number of students
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• What are two ways that Hughes in chapter 6 suggests for achieving beneficial backwash?
• Test the abilities you want to develop• Sample widely and unpredictably• Use Direct Testing• Make testing Criterion-referenced• Base Achievement tests on objectives• Ensure test is known and understood by teachers
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• What are two benefits of a short-answer item?• items easier to write than mult. Choice• Guessing less of an issue• Cheating more difficult• (Hughes, 79)
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• What are three of the steps of test development?
• Hughes (p.59 and beyond)
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• What is one advantage and one disadvantage of using multiple choice items in language testing?
• (Hughes 79)
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• What are three common kinds of or purposes for portfolio assessment?
• Showcase, Documentation, Evaluation(MM, p. 233-255???)
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• Define Holistic v. Analytic scoring.• Holistic (Hughes p.94) = Assigning a single
score to a piece of work, writing, speaking etc.
• Analytic (Hughes p. 100) = Assigning separate scores for various components of a task.
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• What are two kinds of validity that are relevant in language testing, and what do they mean?
• Content, Criterion, Construct (Hughes, 26)
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• What is reliability?• When a test measures something
consistently. (Hughes, 3)
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• Name and explain two kinds of threats to the reliability of a test.
• Genesee Upshur (p. 60 table at bottom of page) Person-related, Assessor-Related, Instrument-Related.
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• Which of the following types of tests describe the test in this setting.
• Students have taken a test after joining the Marines. It is used to tell the drill sergeant what percentage of students scored below a given recruit. _________
• 1. Norm-referenced
• 2. Subjective
• 3. Criterion-referenced
• 4. Achievement• • 5. Proficiency• • 6. Objective• • 7. Placement
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Good Job Team…..?????