Assessment procedure analysis (E-task)

Theoretical foundations of the program: PIFLE level 4 course. Socio-cognitive approach to language teaching and learning (individual and
social). Communicative competence: it does not only focus on knowledge and skills but also socio-cultural aspects.
Teaching approach: TBLT/EGAP
Assessment system: The assessment system includes SCORM-packages (automatically graded), exams, rubrics, portfolio, forums.

E-Task 2: Encounters

Main e-Task

1. Title: Minority groups in Colombia

2. Type of interaction: Pair work
3. Product: Each pair of students will write a newspaper article about a minority community including demographic and geographic
information, language, food, clothing and traditions (celebrations and customs).
4. Resources and input: Input presented in previous actions: an animated video titled “Diversity in the university” in which two college
students talk about an indigenous students they know; two online articles, one about the situation of indigenous communities in Colombia, and
the second one about Afro-Colombians; and a podcast about the impact of the Afro-Colombian culture in the country.
5. Actions:
• Choose a classmate to work with.
• Select a candidate of a minority community to write about.
• Make a mind map about your ideas for the article including demographic and geographic information; language, food and clothing; and
traditions (celebrations and customs).
• Write the article using proper citation and adequate sources.
• Publish the mind map and the article in the Main e-Task Submission and Scoring section.
6. Delivery Protocol:
Format the mind map using an appropriate Web 2.0 tool and the article in a Word file and publish them.
Deadline for delivery: According to the course academic calendar.
Practicality Reliability Validity Authenticity

Definition: Definition: Definition: Definition:

It refers to resources
management such as
time, space and money.
It refers to the consistency of the
tests and the factors on which the
results depend.
The extent to which inferences made
from assessment results are
appropriate, meaningful and useful
in terms of the purpose of the
assessment.
The degree of correspondence of the
characteristics of a given language
test task to the features of a target
language task.
Topic meaningful
real- world tasks

Evidence: Evidence: Evidence: Evidence:

-Ss deliver it virtually.
-It is time-efficient since
students have enough
time to accomplish it.
-It does not need a
computer to be scored.
-The platform is friendly.
-The resources that
students need to perform
the task are available on
the platform.
Rater reliability: The rubric
defines clear criteria which reduces
human error, subjectivity and bias.
Test administration reliability:
The platform provides Ss with clear
instructions to develop the task.
It has a rubric that specifies
performance quantification that
makes scoring easier.
Test reliability: This main E- task
is the result of a writing process
where Ss research, plan and write
drafts and receive feedback before
submitting the final paper.
There is a connection among This is an EGAP course, therefore
assessment, testing and teaching. its tasks are based in possible
situations within the academic
Content validity world.
The platform allows students’
exposure to original material
(videos, readings and podscast),
forums,vocabulary exercises, sound
discrimination exercises, cloze,
matching, true or false, multiple
choice, etc. The topics presented in
the unit were expanded by the tutor
during the online sessions.
Direct testing:
Students develop the task (writing a
newspaper article).

Criterion related validity:

specified classroom objectives are
measured, and implied
predetermined levels of performance
are expected to be reached (60%)
 Construct validity: The program
draws on TBLT, the task responds to
the socio-cultural approach because
it conceives language learning as a
process that is socially constructed
using interaction-based activities It
also assesses the product, and
focuses on EGAP purposes.

Face validity: There is a forum

where students can practice similar
tasks to the one to be assessed.

Lack of evidence: Lack of evidence: Lack of evidence:

Human resources Test administration reliability: Ss We consider that the mind map
Assessing writing will may face problems with the component of the task could have
always take much time. platform and internet connection. been included in the rubric criteria.

Santiago Aristizábal, Andrey Orjuela, Andrés Cardona.