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Teacher Assessment Literacy: What Teachers Need to
Know?
By Liying Cheng
To do assessments we need to look at the activities we do
in our daily classes.
• Why do we teach and assess?
Assessment: The bridge between teaching and learning.
(William 2011)
From testing to assessment:
-Validity and validation of testing
• Test score interpretation and use
-Impact/Washback
• Influence of testing on the society
• Influence of testing on teaching and learn
-Classroom assessment
• Assessment of, for, as learning
• Teacher’s assessment literacy
• Diagnostic assessment
Validity of testing
Validity is an overall evaluative judgment of the degree to which empirical
evidence and theoretical
rationales support the adequacy and appropriateness of interpretations
and actions based on test scores or other modes of assessment. Validity
is not a property of the test or assessment as such, but rather of the
meaning of the test scores.
Washback or backwash?
Refers to the influence of testing on teaching and learning. The concept is
rooted in the notion the test or examinations can and should drive
teaching, and enhence learning.
Classroom assessment
Assessment of learning:
It’s at the end of a unit or semester. It’s a task to measure activities.
Assessment for learning:
Observed the classroom and help them during the student process.
Assessment as learning:
Allow students the opportunity to use assessment to further their own
learning.
What is assessment?
The wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate,
measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress,
skills acquisitions, or educational needs of students.
Assessment includes events, tools, process and
decisions.
• Events when students know what to do
• Tools, the activities we do daily
• Process, how we do the classroom assessment
• Decisions when we need to let student know
about the grade and their knowladge
Assessment tools and methods
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Essay
MC questions (multiple choice)
Participation
Selected-response ( true/false, a,b,c)
Conversations
Conferences
Expositions
Observations
Products
Speaking
Listening
Test scores
Test
Learning:
Acquiring knowledge skills, attitudes, values and
experiences.
Learning targets:
• Knowledge and simple understanding
• Deep understanding and reasoning
• Skill
• Product
• Affect
Assessment task criteria's:
• Congruence with planned learning
• Authenticity
• Student consultation
• Transparency
• Diversity
• Profesora: Rosa María Tapia Reyes
• Colegio La Salle Acapulco