Transcript Spanish Assessment Smackdown - span676

Spanish Assessment Smackdown
• What are two of the 5 important aspects of objectives?
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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.
• 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
• Get out a piece of paper and a writing utensil.
• Calculate by hand the three M’s for the
following scores.
Student Score
Arnaldina
Amanda
Airikah
Arnulfo
Wakovia
5
7
8
9
9
• Get out a piece of paper and a writing utensil.
• Calculate by hand the three M’s for the
following scores.
Student Score
Arnaldina
Amanda
Airikah
Arnulfo
Wakovia
Mean
Median
Mode
5
7
8
9
9
7.6
8
9
• What does a standard deviation tell us?
• The typical distance of a score from the mean.
(Hughes, p. 26)
• 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.”
• What does a facility value provide information
about?
• Specific items on a test (Hughes, 225)
• In language testing we often discuss the term
validity.
• Define validity.
• When a test measures what it intends to
measure. (hughes p. 26)
• What does a cloze test supposedly measure?
• Overall language ability (Hughes p. 187 last
line first paragraph)
• What is one simple way to calculate a facility
value?
• Number correct divided by the number of
students
• 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
• 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)
• What are three of the steps of test
development?
• Hughes (p.59 and beyond)
• What is one advantage and one disadvantage
of using multiple choice items in language
testing?
• (Hughes 79)
• What are three common kinds of or purposes
for portfolio assessment?
• Showcase, Documentation, Evaluation
(MM, p. 233-255???)
• 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.
• What are two kinds of validity that are
relevant in language testing, and what do they
mean?
• Content, Criterion, Construct (Hughes, 26)
• What is reliability?
• When a test measures something
consistently. (Hughes, 3)
• 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.
• Which of the following types of
tests describe the test in this
setting.
• 1. Norm-referenced
• 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. _________
• 3. Criterion-referenced
• 2. Subjective
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4. Achievement
5. Proficiency
6. Objective
7. Placement
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