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ULI8011 Language and Literacy Assessment - Reading

Semester 2, 2020 Online
Short Description: Language & Literacy-Reading
Units : 0.25
Faculty or Section : Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts
School or Department : School of Education
Student contribution band : National Priority - Teaching
ASCED code : 079999 - Education not elsewhere classi
Grading basis : Graded

Rationale

Designing effective assessments is an important part of every language and literacy teachers' and assessors' toolkit. Understanding the constructs of how we think about language and reading, the processes of creating instruments that measure accurately and fairly, and embedding the principles of good assessment all contribute to good decision-making.

Synopsis

This minicourse illustrates how to construct an effective testing instrument for reading assessment. Students will evaluate existing theories and industry best practice, and develop their own assessment instrument. Students will then be asked to justify their design decisions.

Please be advised that this minicourse is made up of four parts please see LIN8007 for the full course specification.

Objectives

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

  1. evaluate a context and synthesise existing theories, reflecting understanding of construct definition, purpose and process (LIN8007 LO1);
  2. justify your design decisions for the developed assessment instrument according to key theories and design principles (LIN8007 LO1);
  3. apply specialist skills of assessment design and process to create high quality assessment instruments and defend design choices. (LIN8007 LO5)

Topics

Description Weighting(%)
1. Test design cycle: defining context and purpose 25.00
2. Test criterion and construct definition 25.00
3. Task/item design; specification writing 25.00
4. Test cycle revisited: reliability and validity 25.00

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

ALL textbooks and materials available to be purchased can be sourced from (unless otherwise stated). (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/textbooks/?year=2020&sem=02&subject1=ULI8011)

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There are no texts or materials required for this course.

Reference materials

Reference materials are materials that, if accessed by students, may improve their knowledge and understanding of the material in the course and enrich their learning experience.
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority 2019, English: Year 10,
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Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority n.d, Literacy,
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Bachman, L 1990, Fundamental considerations in language testing, Oxford ¾«¶«´«Ã½app Press, Oxford, England.
Grabe, W 2008, Reading in a second language: Moving from theory to practice,
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Hughes, A 2002, Testing for language teachers, 2nd edn, Cambridge ¾«¶«´«Ã½app Press, Cambridge, NY.
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Seaboyer, J., & Barnett, T 2019, 'New perspectives on reading and writing across the disciplines', Higher Education Research & Development, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-10.
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Wiliam, D 2011, 'What is assessment for learning?', Studies in Educational Evaluation, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 3-14.
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Willis, J 2011, 'Affiliation, autonomy and assessment for learning', Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 399-415.
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Student workload expectations

Activity Hours
Assessments 10.00
Directed ¾«¶«´«Ã½app 30.00

Assessment details

Description Marks out of Wtg (%) Due Date Notes
Assessment 1 50 100 07 Sep 2020 (see note 1)

Notes
  1. The assessment for this minicourse is due 4 weeks after teaching concludes. Students have access to the learning platform for a total of 11 weeks.

Important assessment information

  1. Attendance requirements:
    There are no attendance requirements for this course. However, it is the students’ responsibility to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration.

  2. Requirements for students to complete each assessment item satisfactorily:
    To satisfactorily complete an individual assessment item a student must achieve at least 50% of the marks for that item. Depending upon the requirements in Statement 4 below, students may not have to satisfactorily complete each assessment item to receive a passing grade in this course.

  3. Penalties for late submission of required work:
    Students should refer to the Assessment Procedure (point 4.2.4)

  4. Requirements for student to be awarded a passing grade in the course:
    To be assured of receiving a passing grade a student must achieve at least 50% of the total weighted marks available for the course.

  5. Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:
    The final grade for the full course will be assigned on the basis of the aggregate of the weighted marks obtained for each mapped minicourse, once all assessments have been successfully undertaken.

  6. Examination information:
    There is no examination in this course.

  7. Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:
    There is no examination in this course, there will be no deferred or supplementary examinations.

  8. ¾«¶«´«Ã½app Student Policies:
    Students should read the USQ policies: Definitions, Assessment and Student Academic Misconduct to avoid actions which might contravene ¾«¶«´«Ã½app policies and practices. These policies can be found at .

Assessment notes

  1. Referencing in assignments must comply with the Harvard (AGPS) referencing system. This system should be used by students to format details of the information sources they have cited in their work. The Harvard (APGS) style to be used is defined by the USQ library’s referencing guide. This guide can be found at .

Evaluation and benchmarking

internal USQ accreditation/reaccreditation processes which include (i) stringent standards in the independent accreditation of its academic programs, (ii) close integration between business and academic planning, and (iii) regular and rigorous review.

Other requirements

  1. There are 4 minicourses at 0.25 credit point that map to 1 full course. To receive credit for this minicourse into the full course, students must successfully pass the assessment. Once all 4 mapped minicourses have been successfully completed, a credit into the full course applies.

Date printed 6 November 2020