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Second Language Assessment
Resources
Developing Speaking and Writing Tasks for Second Language Assessment:
A Miniguide for Assessment Development
This short guide contains a framework that will help teachers
create speaking and writing tasks and tests that are directly
linked to classroom practice. The guide includes tools and worksheets
that can be tailored to a variety of classroom contexts and a
range of students' needs, using a model based on extensive research
and piloting done by the Minnesota Articulation Project members
and the Assessment Team at CARLA.
Download: Miniguide
PDF (requires Acrobat
Reader).
This grant produced item banks, an item selection algorithm,
and computer-based, fixed-length reading tests in French, German,
and Spanish targeted at the ACTFL levels Intermediate-Low and
Intermediate-High. The grant also produced a validation study
which demonstrated that students' performances on paper-and-pencil
and computer-administered tests were similar.
The Assessment Annotated bibliography contains information on
various works dealing with the assessment of language teaching
and learning. It was created to give language teachers and students
a useful and accessible research tool in the area of second language
assessment.
Links to additional Internet resources for those interested in
second language assessment.
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