Testing and Evaluation

Testing: Assessment & Evaluation

• Testing for Language Teachers by Arthur Hughes (1989, CUP) 
• Teaching and Testing (pg 1 to 6) 
• Kinds of Test and Testing (pg 9 -­ 21) 
• Validity (pg 22-­28) 
• Reliability (pg 29-­43) 
• Achieving Beneficial Backwash (pg 44-­47) 
• Stages of Test Construction (pg 48-­58) 
• Test techniques and testing overall ability (pg 59­-74) 
• Testing W­S­R­L )pg 75­-140) 
• Testing grammar and vocabulary (pg 141­-151) 
• Test administration (152-­154) 

• Difference between Assessment and Evaluation 
• Defining Good Assessment by Martin Covington 
• Alternative Assessment and Second Language Study: What and Why? by Charles Hancock
• How do you Determine if a Test has Validity, Reliability, Fairness, and Legal Defensibility
• Integrating Testing with Teaching by Herbert Rudman 
• A Case Study ­ IELTS Test 

Washback / Backwash

Review of Washback and its Pedagogical Implications

Handouts - by Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya

• Basic concept of Testing & Evaluation

Rubrics for Assessment

• Rubric: Spoken Skills
• Rubric: Oral Presentation
• Rubric: Written Assignment
• Evaluating Criteria: Written Assignment

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Remedy for the Challenge of Continuous Assessment in Large Classes

This is the presentation for the National Symposium at Charotar University of Science and Technology CHARUSAT (Gujarat - India) organised by Indukaka Ipcowala Institute of Management (I2IM) on Technology in ELT Challenges and Remedies on 23 November, 2013.

It discusses importance of ICT in testing and evaluation / assessment. It refers to Ken Robinson and Sugata Mitra as well as applications like Moodle, Hotpotatotes, ProProfs, Zoho Quiz, Testmoz etc and then narrows down on Google Docs / forms for online testing and Flubaroo script for auto grading. In live demo, it demonstrates benefits of Google Forms and Flubaroo for online testing and continuous assessment.

Remedy for the Challenge of Continuous Assessment in Large Classes from Dilip Barad