Introduction. Lesson 1

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Lesson 1
Introduction

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Contents
01
02
Warm-up
Revision
and needs
analysis
03
04
Objectives
and topics
Testing vs
assessment

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01 Warm-up
Go to the link
and
Describe your
summer holiday
with 4 emojis
( 3 minutes)

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Reveal!
Now try to guess how the
holiday is spend and who
spend their holiday this way

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02 Revision and needs analysis
Work in groups of 4. Brainstorm
all information that you
remember about the
assessment.
( 5 minutes)

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Present your ideas
(5 minutes)

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Needs analysis
What are your difficulties in
assessment?
● Which topics would you like to learn?

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Objectives and topics

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Testing vs Assessment
Work in pairs. Discuss the
difference between testing and
assessment.
(5 minutes)

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Definitions
A test, in simple terms, is a method of measuring a
person’s ability, knowledge, or performance in a given
domain. (H.D. Brown, 2004)
In language education, assessment refers to the
systematic process of evaluating and measuring
collected data and information on students’ language
knowledge, understanding, and ability in order to
improve their language learning and development (C.
Coombe, 2018)

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Lesson 2-3
Constructive
Alignment and
types of testing

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Contents
01
Warm-up
03
Types of
testing
02
Constructive
alignment

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01 Warm-up
Work in pairs. Write as
many items as possible
discussed last lesson.

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02 Constructive alignment
Work in pairs and discuss how
these items are connected to
each other. ( 3 minutes)
● Objectives
● Activities
● Assessment

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Test types
Work in pairs. Outline test types
you know. (3 minutes)

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C
E
A
B
D

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Examples
Work in groups of 4. Find as many
examples as possible for each
type of assessment (5 minutes)

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Test types
Informal vs Formal
● Norm-referenced vs Criterionreferences
● Direct vs Indirect
● Discrete vs Integrative
● Objective vs Subjective

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Work in groups of 4. Choose one of
these
● National certificate
● IELTS
● TOEFL
● CAE FCE
● Duolingo
● Lingua skill

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Analyze the test
1. What is the purpose of the test?
2. Does it represent direct or indirect testing (or a mixture of both)?
3. Are the items discrete point or integrative (or a mixture of both)?
4. Which items are objective, and which are subjective? Can you order the
subjective items according to degree of subjectivity?
5. Is the test norm-referenced or criterion-referenced?
6. Does the test measure communicative abilities? Would you describe it as
a
communicative test? Justify your answers.
7. What relationship is there between the answers to question 6 and the
answers to the other questions?
8. Would there be any difficulty in making any of the tests computer-based?

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Reflection
What did you
improve today?

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Thanks!
Do you have any
questions?
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