ESCUELA DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN
551020 - Testing and Evaluation in ELT
Activity guide and evaluation Rubric
Unit 3 collaborative assignment forum
ACTIVITY GUIDE
Activity type: Collaborative work forum
Objectives:
Plan and construct language tests
Analyze and interpret the results of language tests
Topics:
Assessing communicative competence
Assessing receptive skills
Assessing productive skills
Assessing grammar and vocabulary
Activities and description of the learning strategy:
In this activity the group will create a test for each particular skill area and an
integrated test. With each test, students will include a brief discussion concerning
the parameters of the test: student population, testing environment, and rationale
for the type of measure used. NOTE: this brief rationale may (and probably should)
include references, which must be listed on a separate reference page and must
follow APA guidelines. The group will prepare a ppt presentation as final product.
This activity is developed in 2 phases:
Individual phase (phase 1)
In this phase each student must:
1. Review all the resources listed in the forum about proficiency language tests.
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Activity guide and evaluation Rubric
Unit 3 collaborative assignment forum
2. Review the evaluation rubric to know the criteria his/her tutor will take into
consideration to evaluate the individual and group participation in this activity.
3. Participate actively in the forum by posting his/her contributions to develop the
activity on time, according to the schedule presented below.
Discussion in the forum (phase 2)
In this phase, students in the group must:
1. Agree how to develop the exercise proposed (by distributing the section tests,
selecting them, etc) and choose a group's leader, who will dynamize the
participation in the forum.
2. All the contributions must be posted directly in the forum to facilitate their
revision.
3. Each student must comment at least two partners' posts in order to correct
mistakes or confirm that the ideas are good.
4. The group's leader must compile the contributions for integrated test into a
power point document, which will be posted as the final group's document. All the
forum participants must contribute with the design and edition of this document.
In case that all the group's students do not participate in the forum (it means,
the 5 students of the collaborative group), the ones who participate must
make the complete assignment. In this case the tutor will grade only those
students whose participations appear in the forum.
Final activity's product: The leader will post into the forum the power point
presentation designed to present integrated test.
Important: It is necessary to take into account the opening and due dates of this
Activity.
Revision of the suggested resources for this activity.
Reaching of agreements to develop the exercises proposed.
Choosing of the group's leader.
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551020 - Testing and Evaluation in ELT
Activity guide and evaluation Rubric
Unit 3 collaborative assignment forum
Posting in the forum each student's individual contributions and comments
about other partners' contributions.
Design of power point document
Posting in the forum the final group's product about an design integrated language
test.
Do not forget to take into account the evaluation rubric tutors will use to grade your
individual and team work. Remember it is important to participate on time.
Students who participate late will have a lower grade in the items 1 and 3,
according to the evaluation rubric.
Resources
Course agenda Online
content
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Activity guide and evaluation Rubric
Unit 3 collaborative assignment forum
Evaluation rubric
Evaluated item
Low evaluation
Medium evaluation
High evaluation
Individual
participation in the
forum
You did not
participate in the
forum
(score0)
You participate on time
and your contributions
are grammatically
correct. The ideas are
clear and wellconstructed.
(score 14)
Foruminteraction
You did not
participate in the
forum.
(score0)
Your contributions have
lots of mistakes, so ideas
can be confused or not
clear.
You participate late in the
forum (when most of the
work is developed by other
students).
(score5)
You commented only one
of your partners'
contributions.
(score5)
Design and edition of
thefinalgroup's
product
You did not
participate in the ppt
design and edition.
(score3)
Your participation in the
ppt design and creation
was poor.
(score2)
Powerpoint
presentation
.
(score0)
You only posted your
profile or your friend's
information in the blog.
The information you
posted in the blog does not
fit the instructions given in
the activity guide.
(score 3)
TOTAL PUNTOS
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Total
score
14
You commented 2 or
13
more of your partners'
contributions and this
comments were
meaningful.
(score 13)
You participated on time 10
in the design and
creation of the group's
forum and this
participation was
meaningful.
(score 10)
You posted your profile
10
information and your
friend's information in
the group's blog,
according to the
instructions given in the
activity guide (photo and
images included).
(score 10)
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