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Learning
By
Didi Sukyadi
Evaluation, Assessment ,and
Testing (Cameron, 2001:222)
• Testing: One technique or method of
assessment that is concerned with measuring
learning through performance.
• Assessment: concerns with pupils learning or
performance and thus provides one type of
information that might be used in evaluation
• Evaluation: a process of systematically collecting
information in order to make a judgment
including the issues of lessons, programs
through documentation, observation, interviews,
questionnaires, etc.
The Place of Evaluation in
Curriculum Development
• Evaluation can or should be involved in all
phases of curriculum development starting
from needs analysis, stating the
objectives, testing itself, material
development, teaching and learning
process and evaluation.
The Place of Assessment in
Teaching and Learning Process
• Brewster et.al. (2003:247): assessment
plays an extremely important part in the
teaching and learning process and may
heavily influence the way the pupils are
taught and the kinds of activities they do
Assessment in Learning
Outcome
(Statement of competence)
(Statement of Achievement)
Learning Assessment
(Alternative modes, (Alternative forms of
Contexts, Time-scales Evidence acceptable
TEST TYPES
1) Grammatical competence
2) Sociolinguistic competence
3) Strategic competence
4) Organizational competence
5) Pragmatic competence
A language test should reflect:
1) Language is used in interaction
2) Interactions are usually unpredictable
3) Language has a context
4) Language is used for a purpose
5) There is a need to examine a
performance
6) Language is authentic
7) Language success is behavioral based.
Testing communicative language
ability:
1) Be criterion-referenced against the
operational performance of a set of
language tasks.
2) Be concerned with validating itself against
the criteria and be concerned with the
content, construct and predictive validity.
3) Rely on modes of assessment which are
qualitative
4) Subordinate reliability to face validity
Test item:
• A unit of measurement with a prompt and a
prescriptive form for responding, which is
intended to yield a response from an examinee
from which performance in some language
construct my be inferred in order to make some
decision.
• A stem can be the portion of the item (in multiple
choice), a quote the student must respond, or
the reading passage that the student must
analyze and write about.
WRITING TEST ITEMS
• Oral interviews
• Story retelling
• Teacher observation
• Experiments
• Demonstration
• Projects/Exhibition
• Writing samples
• Portfolios