LANGUAGE TEACHING EVALUATION

ASSESSING WRITING

Lecturer: Dr. Desmawati Radjab

By: NAME: IRDAVIANI NIM: 19358/ DIKNAS A

GRADUATE PROGRAM STATE UNIVERSITY OF PADANG 2011

ASSESSING WRITING

Genres of Written Language 1. Academic Writing Papers and general subject reports Essays, composition Academically focused journals Short-answer test responses Technical reports Theses, dissertations

2. Job-Related Writing Messages Letters/emails Memos Reports Schedules Advertisements labels signs announcements

3. Personal Writing Letters Messages Calendar entries Financial documents Forms Fiction medical reports questionnaires email notes shopping lists invitations

Types of Writing Performances 1. Imitative

2. Intensive 3. Responsive 4. Extensive Designing Assessment Tasks Tasks in [Hand-] writing letters 1. Copying 2. Listening cloze selection tasks 3. Picture-cued tasks 4. Form completion tasks 5. Converting numbers and abbreviations to words. Spelling tasks and detecting phoneme-grapheme correspondence. 1. Spelling test 2. Picture-cued tasks 3. Multiple choice techniques 4. Matching phonetic symbols Designing Assessment tasks Dictation and Dicto-Comp Grammatical Transformation Tasks Picture-Cued Tasks Vocabulary assessment tasks Ordering tasks Short answer and sentence completion tasks Designing Assessment Tasks Paraphrasing Guided Question and Answer Paragraph construction Tasks Scoring Methods for Responsive and Extensive Writing Responsive and Extensive Writing Intensive Writing Imitative Writing words punctuation.

Holistic Scoring Primary Trait Scoring Analytic Scoring Beyond Scoring Responding to Extensive Writing

Assessing initial stages of the process of composing Assessing letter stages of the process of composing

LANGUAGE TEACHING EVALUATION

ASSESSING GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY

Lecturer: Dr. Desmawati Radjab

By: NAME: IRDAVIANI NIM: 19358/ DIKNAS A

GRADUATE PROGRAM STATE UNIVERSITY OF PADANG 2011

ASSESSING GRAMMAR

Defining Grammatical Knowledge 1. Grammatical forms 2. Grammatical meanings 3. Pragmatic meaning Designing Assessment Tasks Selected Response

Multiple-Choice Tasks Discrimination Tasks Noticing Tasks or Consciousness-Raising Tasks Designing Assessment Tasks Gap Filling Tasks Short Answer Tasks Dialogue Completion Tasks Designing Assessment Tasks Extended Production Limited Production

Information Gap Tasks Role-Play or Simulation Tasks

Assessing Vocabulary The Nature of Vocabulary Defining Lexical Knowledge Some Considerations in Designing Assessment Tasks Clarify purpose Define Construct Select Target Words Determine mode of Performance Designing Assessment Tasks High frequency word Low frequency word Vocabulary matching exercise Word association Designing Assessment Tasks Fill in the blank Selective deletion cloze Productive Vocabulary Receptive Vocabulary

LANGUAGE TEACHING EVALUATION

GRADING AND STUDENT EVALUATION

Lecturer: Dr. Desmawati Radjab

By: NAME: IRDAVIANI NIM: 19358/ DIKNAS A

GRADUATE PROGRAM STATE UNIVERSITY OF PADANG 2011

GRADING AND STUDENT EVALUATION

Guidelines for Selecting Grading Criteria

1. Components of Grading should be consistent 2. Explicitly stated in writing 3. Recognize the subjectivity 4. Consider allocating relatively small weights to items

Methods for Calculating Grades

Absolute grading

Relative grading

Teachers perceptions of Appropriate Grade Distributions

Institutional Expectations and Constraints

Cross cultural Factors and the Question of Difficulty Experience as a teacher Adeptness at designing feasible tasks Special care in framing items Mirroring in-class Variation of tasks Reference to prior tests Review and preparation Knowledge students collective abilities What Do Letter Grades Mean? A B C D E excellent good adequate inadequate failing

Alternatives to Letter Grading 1. Self Assessment 2. Narrative Evaluation

Some Principles and Guidelines for Grading and Evaluation Grading is not necessarily based on a universally accepted scale Grading is sometimes subjective and context dependent Grading of tests is often done on a curve Grades reflect a teachers philosophy of grading

Grades reflect an institutional philosophy of grading