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Designing Classroom Language Tests

Designing Classroom Language Tests. Jacob Luth. Questions to Consider. What is the purpose of the test? What are the objectives of the test? Do my test questions match the purpose and objectives of the test? How will you decide the test items?

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Designing Classroom Language Tests

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  1. Designing Classroom Language Tests Jacob Luth

  2. Questions to Consider • What is the purpose of the test? • What are the objectives of the test? • Do my test questions match the purpose and objectives of the test? • How will you decide the test items? • What kind of scoring, grading, or feedback is expected?

  3. Types of Test • Language Aptitude Tests • Proficiency Tests • Placement Tests & Diagnostic Tests • Achievement Tests

  4. Language Aptitude Exams • Category I language: 95 or better[4] (French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish) • Category II language: 100 or better (German, Indonesian) • Category III language: 105 or better (Dari, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi/Urdu, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, and Uzbek) • Category IV language: 110 or better (Modern Standard Arabic, Pashto, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) • US Military

  5. High Stakes Proficiency Exam • http://www.ets.org/toefl/ibt/about/who_accepts_scores?WT.ac=toeflhome_whoaccepts_121127

  6. Clear Objectives • What do you want to test? • Ex: I want to test the • Define your objectives. • Example: Students will use the progressive future tensein written discourse

  7. Designing Multiple Choice Items • Simple item to create but difficult to do well • Students can guess • Students can cheat • -- • High Practicality • High Reliability

  8. Multiple Choice Exams • Design each item for a specific objective • Make the stem as simple as possible • The intended answer is the only correct one

  9. Grading • How will you score the exam? -- based on your intentions What is important?

  10. Feedback • One number (0-5) • Sub scores • Listening and reading section • Signals for what is correct • Side comments

  11. More Feedback • Interview or Presentation Scores for each element on a rubric A checklist of what elements that need to be included Essay Written comments Rubric Ongoing and post conferences Self assessment

  12. Design Your Own Quiz!

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