Designing second language performance assessments

ISBN-13: 9780824821098 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 244 str.

John M. Norris; James Dean Brown; Thom H. Hudson

Opis

This technical report focuses on the decision-making potential provided by second language performance assessments. The authors first situate performance assessment within a broader discussion of alternatives in language assessment and in educational assessment in general. Then they discuss issues in performance assessment design, implementation, reliability and validity. Finally, they present a prototype framework for second language performance assessment, based on the integration of theoretical underpinnings and research findings from the task-based language teaching literature, the language testing literature, and the educational measurement literature.