LANGUAGE TESTING (4 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: explain explain the concepts, components, and steps to language testing; analyze analyze the instruction and content of language testing; Create create a language testing and/or assessment.

Topics:

1. Language Testing and Assessment: Approach to Classroom-based Assessment;
2. Using Classroom-based Assessment;
3. Approach to Assessment Development;
4. Consequences: Why do We Need to Assess Our Students?;
5. Decisions: When do We Need to Assess Our Students?;
6. Interpretations: What and How Should We Assess?;
7. Assessment Records: How can We Record Our Students’ Assessment Performance;
8. Developing Assessment Task Templates;
9. Creating Language Assessment Tasks;
10. Combining Assessment Tasks to Make Classroom-based Assessments;
11. Administrative procedures and instructions;
12. Scoring students’ test performance and reporting the result;
13. Review.