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USING CLASSROOM-BASED LANGUAGE ASSESSMENTS, Using Classroom-Based Language…
USING CLASSROOM-BASED LANGUAGE ASSESSMENTS
Language Assessment
Language Teaching
Purpose: Engage students in language use.
Benefits: Improve linguistic abilities, cognitive.
Tasks: Activities that require students to use language.
Purpose: Collect information about students' language abilities
Tasks: Collect samples of students’ language performance.
Classroom-Based: Developed and/or used by teachers in the classroom.
Process: Includes giving assessments, interpreting results, making decisions.
Similarities and Differences Between Teaching and Assessment
Similarities:
Both involve engaging students in language tasks.
Differences:
Teaching: Aimed at promoting learning.
Assessment: Aimed at collecting information.
Classroom-Based Assessment Decisions
Formative Decisions:
Improve instruction and learning.
Summative Decisions:
Ensure students are ready for the next level.
Importance of Decisions:
Low-Stakes: Minor, easily correctable decisions.
Medium-Stakes: Decisions like placing students in different ability levels.
High-Stakes: Major decisions with significant impacts (e.g., determining who passes a course).
Using Classroom-Based Language Assessments
Modes of Classroom-Based Assessments
Implicit:
Instantaneous, continuous.
Explicit:
Separate from teaching, used for both formative and summative.
Purpose:
Collect performance samples, interpret them, make decisions, and achieve beneficial outcomes.
Process
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Assessment Records:
Interpretations:
Decisions:
Consequences:
Practicality of Assessment Use
Considerations:
Resources (people, materials, time) needed for developing and using assessments.
Practicality:
Ensuring the resources required do not exceed what is available.