Meeting 10 • 28 April 2011

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Main topic(s): Introduction to Assessment; the FL and AL Cultures

(5) Review of previous meeting: main points; thoughts in the meantime?

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(5) (possibly a regular feature:) assessment (or language learning or just education) in the news! (If I can find something). Today: Oregon HB2732, high school graduation requirement: apply for college or military, or attend apprenticeship/ training orientation. Gives food for thought: what are the boundaries between requirements/ standards, testing, assessment?

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(30) "Backwash": implementing oral testing in language programs (courses and and entire curricula); some references: 0054 My 1984 article in Unterrichtspraxis; 0391 Swender, "Oral Proficiency Testing in the Real World" (2003, abstract); 0651 Laplan & Sinclair, "Oral Proficiency Testing and the Language Curriculum: Two Experiments in Curricular Design for Conversation Courses" (1984, abstract)
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(30) ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines: Writing (0013) - as preparation for later discussion of testing writing, and for help with understanding speaking proficiency. Possibly: To help each other out, we'll produce writing samples for their languages.

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(10) More about rubrics: early first-year German oral test (protocol and scoring guide); first-year German projects; SpeakEasy course scoring guide; maybe another trial scoring guide about something other than language learning

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(10) Comments about Assignment 2 (proficiency self-evaluation)

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(10) More discussion of Big Ideas for Major Projects; combining BIMP and rubrics: ACTFL's scoring guide for program presentation proposals; US DOE guidelines for grant proposal readers;

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(10) Maybe: validity and reliability of the OPI.

Upcoming class meetings

At least another week about rubrics, but also while we're looking at testing in other language modalities.

During the final weeks of the quarter we'll get into other assessments related to language learning: textbooks, courses, curricula, departments, institutions, and other subjects areas as they might relate to languages (example: Content-Based Instruction)
Upcoming assignment(s)

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Misc.

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