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ULI8011 Language and Literacy Assessment - Reading

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:

  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

There are no texts or materials required for this course.

Assessment details

Description Weighting (%)
Assessment 1 100
Date printed 10 February 2023