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Introduction To Language Assessment

This document discusses concepts related to language assessment including evaluation, assessment, measurement, and tests. It also covers how to improve beneficial backwash from assessments and the purpose of language assessments.

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Introduction To Language Assessment

This document discusses concepts related to language assessment including evaluation, assessment, measurement, and tests. It also covers how to improve beneficial backwash from assessments and the purpose of language assessments.

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Wawan Apgrianto
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Introduction to

Language
Assessment

Concepts
Evaluation
Assessment
Measurement
Test

Evaluation
The systematic process of collecting,
analyzing, and interpreting information
to determine the extent to which
learners are achieving instructional
objectives.

Assessment
Set of procedures used to get information
dealing with learners achievement and
progress.
Forms: observations, scales, written test

Measurement
Activity of giving mark /score to a test
result
Purpose:
indicating differences among learners in
the degree to which they posses the
characteristic being measured

Test
Type of assessment which specifically consists
of several questions applied during a period of
time, i.e., beginning end of learning
activities focuses on comparison of learning
achievement among learners

Assessment and Teaching


What

is more important?

Backwash: .
is

it good or bad?

Harmful

or beneficial?

Inaccuracy of Language
assessment
1.

Assessment content and technique

2.

Lack of reliability

How to improve Beneficial


Backwash
1.

Assess the abilities whose development you want


to encourage.

2.

Sample widely and unpredictably

3.

Use direct testing

4.

Make testing criterion-referenced

5.

Base assessment on objectives

6.

Ensure the assessment is known and understood


by students and teachers

7.

Where necessary, provide assistance to teachers

8.

Counting the cost

Purpose of Assessment
1.

help to locate the precise areas of difficulty


encountered by the class or by the individual
student

2.

able the teacher to ascertain which parts of the


language program have been found difficult by the
class

3.

used to motivate Student

4.

be ascertained with the significance of each


assessment or test instrument type

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