Spanish Assessment Smackdown

• What are two of the 5 important aspects of objectives? 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 ScoreArnaldina 5Amanda 7Airikah 8Arnulfo 9Wakovia 9

• Get out a piece of paper and a writing utensil.• Calculate by hand the three M’s for the

following scores. Student ScoreArnaldina 5Amanda 7Airikah 8Arnulfo 9Wakovia 9Mean 7.6Median 8Mode 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.

• 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. _________

• 1. Norm-referenced

• 2. Subjective

• 3. Criterion-referenced

• 4. Achievement• • 5. Proficiency• • 6. Objective• • 7. Placement

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