Learning about language assessment : dilemmas, decisions, and directions
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Learning about language assessment : dilemmas, decisions, and directions
(TeacherSource)(Newbury House teacher development)
Heinle & Heinle Publishers, c1998
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Includes suggested readings and references (p. 250-258)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Learning About Language Assessment is one volume of the authoritative 13-title TeacherSource Series. The author examines the issue of classroom assessment form three distinct perspectives: Teachers' Voices, which are authentic accounts of teachers' experiences; Frameworks, which are comprehensive discussions of theoretical issues; and Investigations, which are inquiry-based activities.
Table of Contents
1. Assessment As Information Gathering
2. Analyzing Tests
3. Conflicting Purposes of Assessment
4. The Role of Background Knowledge in the Assessment
5. A Cloze-knit Family
6. Another Dilemma
7. Some Useful Statistical Tools
8. The Correlation Family
9. Multiple-choice Tests and Item Analyses
10. Measuring Meaning
11. Eliciting Speech Samples in Role Plays
12. Three Approaches to Scoring Writing Samples
13. Alternative Assessments
14. Self-assessment in Language Learning
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