Learning About Language Assessment
Dilemmas, Decisions, and Directions
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cengage Learning, Inc
Published:15th Oct '97
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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.
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
ISBN: 9780838466889
Dimensions: 13mm x 186mm x 234mm
Weight: 408g
272 pages
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