Monday, May 14 (Room 100)
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-12:00 Workshop with Meg Malone
v Part I: Assessment: Background Knowledge
- Activity 1: Self-Assessment
- Assessment Defined
- Performance assessment defined
- Assessing Oral Proficiency
v Part II: Students’ Oral Proficiency
- How long does it take to learn a language?
- Activity 2: Which levels are my students?
- Activity 3: Rating Speech Samples
- Activity 4: Listen to a student
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00
v Part III: Practical Implications
- Classroom Assessment Tasks
- Activity 5: Task Development
- Components of an Assessment Task
- Task Development Worksheets
- Task Types: Warm-up Tasks, Graded Tasks and Wind down Tasks
- Types of Rubrics
Tuesday, May 15 (Room 100)
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Workshop with Cathy Baumann
v Achievement and Proficiency, a Continuum
- “backward” design and “backwash”
v Choosing Test Formats to Serve Curricular and Programmatic Needs
- what do we need to know about the learner
- advantages of different test types
- limitations of different test types
- validity and reliability
v Formulating Test Items
- prompts and language levels
- the four skills and grammar/vocabulary
- the “threshold” test
12:00-1:00 Lunch