8W Teaching Period 1, 2022 Online | |
Units : | 0.25 |
Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts |
School or Department : | School of Education |
Grading basis : | Graded |
Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
Staffing
Examiner: Peter Ayriss
Requisites
Enrolment is not permitted if LIN8007 has been previously completed
Overview
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.
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.
Course learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- evaluate a context and synthesise existing theories, reflecting understanding of construct definition, purpose and process (LIN8007 LO1);
- justify your design decisions for the developed assessment instrument according to key theories and design principles (LIN8007 LO1);
- apply specialist skills of assessment design and process to create high quality assessment instruments and defend design choices. (LIN8007 LO5)
Topics
Description | Weighting(%) | |
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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
Assessment details
Description | Weighting (%) |
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Assessment 1 | 100 |