Testing and Assessment Peter Szabo

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Testing and Assessment Peter Szabo
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How do tests make you feel?

• TEST 1.
• Choose the correct answer
• WHAT IS A HIPPOGRIFF?
• a term used in childrens literature to denote
  colorful and descriptive phraseology
• a mythological monster having the wings, claws,
  and head of a griffin and the body of a horse
• ancient Egyptian cuneiform writing commonly
  found on the walls of tombs
• a skin transplant from the leg or foot to the
  hip

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Students demotivation

• TEST 2.
• Choose the correct answers
• WHICH ARE THE MAIN DEMOTIVATING FACTORS FOR
  STUDENTS? (Dörnyei 1988)
• Teacher (personality, commitment, competence,
  teaching method, lack of encouragement)
• School facilities (group is too big or not the
  right level, frequent change of teachers)
• Reduced self-confidence (experience of failure
  or lack of success)
• Negative attitude towards the L2

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Testing, assessment, teaching

• TEST 3.
• Choose the correct answer
• WHICH FIGURE IS CORRECT?

T E A C H I N G ASSESSMENT TESTS
T E S T I N G ASSESSMENT TEACHING
A S S E S S M E N T T E S T S TEACHING
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Assessment techniques

• TEST 4.
• Choose the correct answer
• WHICH ARE THE MOST COMMON CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT
  TECHNIQUES?
• formal assessment
• informal assessment
• formative assessment
• summative assessment

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Hope you remember the previous slide

• TEST 5.
• Choose the correct answer
• WHICH OF THESE CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES IS
  THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF MOTIVATION FOR STUDENTS?

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Evaluation of classroom tests

• TEST 6.
• Choose the correct answer
• CLASSROOM TESTS MUST BE
• practical, reliable, valid and authentic
• funny, creative, and interesting
• serious, academic, unbiased and ethical
• short, simple, unambiguous and easy to mark

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Old-school or alternative assessment?

• TEST 7. - Show for Old-school and
• for Alternative
• Timed, multiple-choice format
• Untimed, free-response format
• Focus on the right answer
• Open-ended, creative answers
• Formative
• Summative
• Continuous long-term assessment
• One-shot, standardized exams
• Decontextualized test items
• Contextualized communicative tasks

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And the right answer

• One-shot, standardized exams
• Timed, multiple-choice format
• Decontexualized test items
• Scores suffice for feedback
• Focus on the right answer
• Summative
• Oriented to product
• Non-interactive performance
• Fosters extrinsic motivation

• Continuous long-term assessment
• Untimed, free-response format
• Contextualized communicative tasks
• Individualizted feedback and washback
• Open-ended, creative answers
• Formative
• Oriented to process
• Interactive performance
• Fosters intrinsic motivation

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Beyond tests alternatives in assessment

• TEST 8.
• Choose the correct answer
• WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTIC OF
  ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT?
• washback
• performance-based assessment
• reliability
• validity

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Portfolio assessment

• TEST 9.
• Choose the correct answer
• WHAT IS CRADLE?
• Its a Interactive Whiteboard software for
  portfolio assessment.
• Its a special section in the Common European
  Framework of Reference which specifies
  portfolios.
• Its a small bed for a baby.
• Its and acronym that stands for Collecting,
  Reflecting, Assessing, Documenting, Linking and
  Evaluating

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Self- and peer-assessment

• TEST 10.
• Choose the correct answer
• WHAT IS THE MAIN DRAWBACK OF THIS METHOD?
• validity
• authenticity
• washback
• reliability

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And a practical example

• Testing and Evaluation Book
• for the new Pearson Longman course SUCCESS
• (Its all in the name!)

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Words of thanks

• Fundamental principles
• Classroom-based assessment
• Practical examples
• Comprehensive treatment of assessing all four
  skills
• Standardized tests
• Ethics of testing
• Alternatives in assessment (title!)

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Thank You!peter.szabo_at_longman.hu