Assessment in language teaching.ppt

Assessment in Language Teaching Aims ? Assessment purposes ? Assessment methods ? Assessment criteria ? Assessment principles ? Testing in language assessment Assessment purposes ? Administrators ? Teachers ? Parents ? Students Administrators ? Provide money and personnel for education ? Need to know whether the programmes they have planned are working well ? Discover how well students are doing with their courses Teachers ? Put the administrators ’ plans into practice ? Need to know what has been done and what needs to be done next ? Need to know what students already know or can do and what they do not know or cannot do yet Parents Value the feedback about their children ’ s performance from the teachers and the school Students ? Need to know what they ’ ve plished ? Be aware of what they need to work on next ? Build up their confidence and satisfaction from what they have achieved Assessment methods ? Teacher ’ s assessment Get information by observing the students in class and by looking at their work ? Continuous assessment The final grade given to the student through various assignments during the course; student ’ s performance or participation in the class activities and written report ? Self-assessment Evaluate their own performance. ? Portfolios Collect assignments and projects that students have done over a long period of time and put them in a file for evaluation Assessment criteria ? Criterion-referenced assessment Based on a fixed standard or a set criterion (national or local educational authority) ? Norm-referenced assessment A student ’ s achievement is interpreted with reference to the achievement of other students or groups of students, rather than to an agreed criterion. ? Individual referenced assessment Based on how well the learner is performing relative to his or her own previous performance, or relative to an estimate of his or her individual ability Assessment principles ? Assess authentic