课堂语言能力评价

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　　Discussion Questions and Activities　　1. You are a college ESL instructor and have designed a mid-term test that has your students read two passages with conflictingviews on the issue of global warming. You have constructed tenshort-answer questions that require the students to relate one textto the other. Half of your items call for "higher level" synthesis ofideas——-such as through comparison and contrast——-and the otherhalf test for more "lower level" comprehension of concepts intro-duced to describe what global warming is or could be. Much toyour surprise, some of the less profident students in your class dowell on the synthesis items and poorly on identifying the mean-ings for concepts, while truly profident students do just theopposite. How would you explain this phenomenon, assumingthe items themselves are well-constructed？　　2. One of the reasons it is helpful to scrutinize carefully itemson a language assessment measure is to make sure that no item Isassessing factors beyond those which the instrument is intendedto assess. Prepare to make such a case at a faculty meeting forforeign-language instructors where you work, and to explain tothem what happens to the results of assessment when items aretesting points other than those intended to be assessed.　　3. What does it mean to derive distractors for multiple-choiceitems empirically？ What advantages can you see in doing so？　　4. As a group activity, take a multiple-choice reading compre-hension test and have the participants respond to some or all of theitems. Then divide up into small groups and have all the groupmembers take turns giving their rationale for why they chose aparticular alternative choice for each item. Be sure that all partid-pants give their rationale for not choosing the other alternatives.This exercise has the potential of being an eye-opener for allparticipants, for they must examine the way in which they dealwith multiple-choice items on a language test.

书籍目录

导读AcknowledgmentsChapter 1：IntroductionChapter 2．Key Questions In Language AssessmentChapter 3：The Assessment Instrument the Respondent，and the Assessment Process．Chapter 4：Scoring and Evaluating the Assessment InstrumentChapter S：The Process of Responding to an Assessment InstrumentChapter 6．Preparing an Assessment InstrumentChapter 7．Assessing Reading ComprehensionChapter 8：Assessing Listening and SpeakingChapter 9：Assessing Written ExpressionChapter 10：Taking StockReferencesIndex

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作者简介

导读 Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Key Questions in Language Assessment Chapter 3:The Assessment Instrument, the Respondent, and the Assessment Process Chapter 4: Scoring and Evaluating the Assessment Instrument Chapter 5: The Process of Responding to an Assessment Instrument Chapter 6: Preparing an Assessment Instrument Chapter 7: Assessing Reading Comprehension Chapter 8: Assessing Listening and Speaking Chapter 9: Assessing Written Expression Chapter 10::Taking Stock References Index

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