PRETEST

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Explain the definition of: a. test b. assessment c. evaluation

How did you feel?

Sutrisno Sadji Evenddy, M.Pd.

Test
A method
Measuring Persons ability, knowledge, or performance

A given domain

Question
Find characteristics of a test.

Assessment
An ongoing process
Encompassing Wider domain

E.g. - students response to a question - offers a comments

Teaching
The process of carrying out certain activities that

experience has shown to be effective in getting students to learn

Setting up the opportunities for learners to listen,

think, take, risks, set goals, and process feedback from the coach and then recycle through the skills that they are trying to master.

Question
What is the relationship among test, assessment, and teaching?

Tests, Assessment, and Teaching

TEACHING ASSESSMENT

TESTS

Assessment

Types of Assessment
Informal and Formal Assessment NormFormative and Referenced Summative and CriterionAssessment Referenced Tests

Informal and Formal Assessment

Informal Assessment starts with incidental, unplanned

comments and responses, along with coaching and other impromptu feedback to the students. E.g. Nice job!, Good work!, etc.
Formal assessment are exercises or procedures

specifically designed to tap a storehouse of skills or knowledge.

Answer and give your opinion.

Is formal assessment the same as test?

Formative and Summative Assessment

Formative:

Evaluating students in the process of forming their competencies and skills with the goal of helping them to continue that growth process.
Summative:

Aims to measure, or summarize, what a student has grasped, and typically occurs at the end of a course or unit instruction.

Norm-Referenced and CriterionReferenced Tests

Norm-referenced tests:

each test-takers score is interpreted in relation to a mean (average score), median (middle score), standard deviation (extent of variance in scores), and/or percentile rank (Brown, 2004).

 Criterion referenced tests

are designed to give test-takers feedback, usually in the form of grades, on specific course or lesson objectives (Brown, 2004)

Approaches to Language Testing

Discrete-Point and Integrative Testing

Communicative Language Testing

Performance-Based Assessment

Discrete-Point Testing
Are constructed on the assumption that language can be broken down into its component parts and those parts can be tested successfully.

Integrative Tests
Measure the level of mastery of the combination of two or more elements of the language.

Communicative Language Testing

Ability to use language appropriately, both receptively and productively, in real situations.

Performance-Based Assessment
Performance assessment is based on the observation appraisal valuation of the activity as in the case of learners
To assess the learning outcomes of the students' observations are needed when doing so.

Current Issues
New views on Intelligence

Traditional and Alternative Assessment

Computer-Based Testing

New Views on intelligence

1.

Gardner (1983,1999), for example, extended the traditional view of intelligence to seven different components.

2. Sternberg (1988,1997) also charted new territory in

intelligence research in recognizing thinking and manipulative strategies as part of intelligence.

3. Goleman (1995) concept of EQ has spurred us to

underscore the importance of the emotions I our cognitive processing.

Traditional Assessment

Assumes knowledge has universal meaning Treats learning as a passive process Separates process from product Focuses on mastering discrete, isolated bits of information Assumes the purpose of assessment is to document learning Believes that cognitive abilities are separate from affective and alnative abilities Views assessment as objective, value-free, and neutral Embraces a hierarchical model of power and control Perceives learning as an individual enterprise

Alternative assessment
Assumes knowledge has multiple meanings
Treats learning as an active process Emphasizes process and product

Focuses on inquiry
Assumes the purpose of assessment is to facilitate

learning Views assessment as subjective and value-laden Embraces a shared model of power and control Perceives learning as a collaborative process

Computer-Based Testing
Computer adaptive test (CAT).

a set of questions and 2. generally appropriate for test taker level.

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Individual Assignment
Find an article discussing definition of test, assessment, or evaluation. Then, write important things relate to those terms. 2. Find the advantages and disadvantages of traditional and alternative assessment.
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Note: You should make it in hand-writing. Submit next week.

Group Work
Divide the class into 9 groups.
Each group should:

- present material based on syllabus. - present the material in power point. - provide a paper (makalah) and hand out for audiences.