ASSESSMENT CONCEPTS AND ISSUES. Assessment and testing; Types and purposes af asessment: then and now. PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT. Practicality; Reliability; Validity. DESIGNING CLASSROOM LANGUAGE TEST. Four assessment scenarios; Determining the purpose of a test; Designing clear, unambiguous objectives. STANDARDS-BASED ASSESSMENT. The role of standards in standarized tests; Standards-based education; Desining english language standards. STANDARDIZED TESTING. Advantages and disvantages of standardized tests; Developing a standaridized tests; Standardized language proficiency testing. BEYOND TESTS: ALTERNATIVES IN ASSESSMENT. The dilema of maximizing both practicality and washback; Performance-based assessment; Rubrics. ASSESSING LISTENING. Integration of skills in language assessment; Assessing gramar and vocabulary; Observing the perfomance of the four skills. ASSESSING SPEAKING. Basic types of spaeking; Mirco-and macroskills of speaking; Designing assessment tasks: imitative speaking. ASSESSING READING. Genres of Reading; Microskills, macroeskills, and strategies for Reading; Types of Reading. ASSESSING WRITING. Gneres of written language; Types of writing perfomance; Micro-and macroskills of writing. ASSESSING GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY. Assessing gramar; Designing assessment tasks: selected response; Designing assessment tasks: limited production. GRADING AND STUDENT EVALUATION. The philosophy of grading: what should grades reflect?; Intitutional expectations and contraints; Alternatives to letter grading false"" Priority=""32"" QFormat=""true"" Name=""Intense Ref

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