Testing and Assessment Peter Szabo

How do tests make you feel?TEST 1. Choose the correct answer:

WHAT IS A HIPPOGRIFF?a term used in children’s literature to denote colorful and descriptive phraseologya mythological monster having the wings, claws, and head of a griffin and the body of a horseancient Egyptian cuneiform writing commonly found on the walls of tombsa skin transplant from the leg or foot to the hip

Students’ demotivationTEST 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

Testing, assessment, teaching

TEST 3.

Choose the correct answer:

WHICH FIGURE IS CORRECT?

T E A C H I N GASSESSMENT

TESTS

T E S T I N G ASSESSMENT

TEACHING

A S S E S S M E N TT E S T STEACHING

Assessment techniques

TEST 4. Choose the correct answer: WHICH ARE THE MOST COMMON CLASSROOM

ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES?

formal assessmentinformal assessmentformative assessmentsummative assessment

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?

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

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

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

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

Portfolio assessment

TEST 9.Choose the correct answer: WHAT IS CRADLE?

It’s a Interactive Whiteboard software for portfolio assessment. It’s a special section in the Common European Framework of Reference which specifies portfolios.It’s a small bed for a baby.It’s and acronym that stands for Collecting, Reflecting, Assessing, Documenting, Linking and Evaluating

Self- and peer-assessment

TEST 10.Choose the correct answer: WHAT IS THE MAIN DRAWBACK OF THIS

METHOD?

validityauthenticitywashbackreliability

And a practical example…

Testing and Evaluation Book

for the new Pearson Longman course SUCCESS

(It’s all in the name!)

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!)

Thank You!peter.szabo@longman.hu