Assessment & Evaluation

1. Identificación de la asignatura

División: Instituto de Idiomas Departamento: Lenguas Extranjeras

Nombre de la asignatura: Assessment and Evaluation Código de la asignatura:

Nivel de la asignatura (Pregrado, Postgrado): Pregrado

Requisitos (Código y nombre de la asignatura): English Language Teaching II (prerrequisito)

Número de créditos de la asignatura: 3

No. de horas teóricas por semana: 3

No. de horas prácticas por semana: Número de semanas: 16

Idioma de la asignatura: English

Modalidad de la asignatura: Presencial

2. Descripción de la asignatura.

The last in the series of English Language Teaching courses, it has two main focuses: reviewing, using and/or adapting different types of materials in the classroom and assessing language learning. The first part of the course will focus on reviewing, selecting, and adapting the different types of English language development materials in Colombia from government issued to teacher-made. Students will also be offered the opportunity to create their own materials based on learning outcomes and objectives. The second part of the course will review current concepts, procedures, and issues in language assessment, in general, and then narrow to emphasize effective classroom testing of the language skills and subskills. This subject emphasizes the general principles of English language test construction and administration. Students will have practical experience with adapting, preparing, correcting, analyzing, and assessing language tests.

3. Justificación.

Both materials and assessment are essential to the teaching process and should be aligned to the learning outcomes and objectives of the course. Therefore, this course has been designed to build fundamental knowledge about these areas that will be applied in a practical way in this course.

4. Objetivo general de la asignatura.

By the end of this course, students will be able to understand and create materials and testing tools and procedures that meet the outcomes of courses and contexts.

5. Resultados de Aprendizaje.

At the end of the course, students will be able to: ● Identify various approaches to language assessment and current issues in the field. ● Evaluate and adapt learning materials and tests or assessment procedures to be appropriate to their purpose and context of use. ● Develop an effective test or assessment procedure to evaluate the language skills. ● Use quantitative procedures to create and analyze items for a language test.

6. Temas de la asignatura.

- Intro and General Basis for Assessment I. Statistics Principles and Procedures - Frequency, distribution, and scales - Measures of central tendency - Variability - Descriptive statistics - Normality and the normal curve - Statistics in tests - Intro to inferential stats - Claims, tests and conclusions II. Language Testing - Kinds of Tests and Testing - The rubber ruler - The testing cycle - Diagnostic Assessments - Item creation and Analysis - Assessing receptive skills o Reading  Items to assess reading  Cloze  Cloze elide  Multiple choice o Listening  Items to assess listening  Integrated items  Multiple choice - Assessing productive skills o Speaking  Items to assess speaking  Elicited Imitation  Monologues  Conversation o Writing  Items to assess writing  Timed writing tasks  Genre-based items III. ELT

Classroom Assessment -

Selecting and grading content according to course objectives and student learning -

Formative Assessment - The lay of the land (Moss & Brookhart, 2019) - Inside the Black Box (Black & Wiliam, 1998) - CATs and DOGS - Assessment as, for and of learning (Gottlieb, 2016) - Rubrics Grading Framework and Assessment Durante el semestre los objetivos de aprendizaje serán evaluados de las siguientes maneras:

Evaluación Porcenta je

● Create a rubric 20% ● Item design + Defense 20% ● Test 1 20% ● Classroom Assessment Technique Microteaching 20% ● Test 2. 20% Todas las evaluaciones tienen una escala de 0.0 a 5.0, y la mínima nota acumulada para pasar este curso es 3.0/5.0 (= 60%). 1.

Bibliografía

Básica de la asignatura. - Basterra, M., Trumbull, E., & Solano-Flores, G. (Eds.). (2011). Cultural validity in assessment: Addressing linguistic and cultural diversity. Routledge. - Brown, H. D., & Abeywickrama, P. (2010). Language assessment: Principles and - classroom practices. White Plains, NY: Pearson Education. - Fulcher, G. (2013). Practical language testing. Routledge. - Garton, S., & Graves, K. (eds.) (2014). International perspectives on materials in ELT. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. - Gray, J. (ed.) (2013). Critical perspectives in language teaching materials. New - York: Palgrave Macmillan. - Hughes, A. (2020). Testing for language teachers (3rd Edition). Cambridge University Press. - Lowie, W., & Seton, B. (2012). Essential statistics for applied linguistics. Macmillan International Higher Education. - McNamara, T. (2000). Language testing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Moss, C. M., & Brookhart, S. M. (2019). Advancing formative assessment in every classroom: A guide for instructional leaders. ASCD. - Popham, J. W. (2018). Classroom Assessment: What teachers need to know (8th Edition). Pearson/Allyn and Bacon. - Reynolds, C. R., Livingston, R. B., & Willson, V. (2010). Measurement and Assessment in Education 2nd. - Swales, J. M., & Feak, C. B. (2011). Navigating academia: Writing supporting genres. University of Michigan Press.

Classroom Guidelines ● Plagiarism is defined as the using of another person’s ideas or words without explicitly crediting that person. All sources for your work must be documented carefully with appropriate quotation marks and/or citations. Consequences of plagiarism include failure of the assignment, failure of the class, and/or disciplinary action by the university, including possible expulsion. Please make sure that you do your own work. ● Students may be asked to demonstrate their command of content and skills of their own work. ● For students to make up any graded event, a valid excuse must be presented to the professor. With the valid excuse, a make-up exam with no cost would be rescheduled within ten days upon returning to class. Failure to do so will result in a zero for that graded event. Homework and quizzes cannot be made up. ,