Multiple Assessments:
moving towards
Integrated Assessment
Secondary School Workshop
Dr. Caroline Linse
To become familiar with different definitions and
descriptions of assessment.
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To contrast Multiple Assessment with Integrated
Assessment.
To identify different purposes of assessment.
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To describe the types of assessment that are
currently taking place.
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To review different suggestions for integrated
assessment.
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To become familiar with the grammar that can be
taught as part of communicative activities.
Activities
Introductory Name Activity
Descriptions of Assessment
Sample Grammar Based Activities –
Integrated with Assessment
Introductory Activity
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Introductory Name Activity –
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Answer the following questions. Be sure to write
complete sentences.
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Find a partner. Ask your partner the questions.
What grammar patterns are being practiced?
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Design a name tag for your partner. The name
tag becomes a tool for you to practice language
and introduce your partner.
Introductory Name
Activity
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Get into groups of 4-7. Introduce your partner to
the rest of the group. Use the construction:
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This is my partner.
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Her/his name is….
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Her/his favorite color is ….
Assessment Focus
What language was being used?
You could assess the ability to use:
Possessive pronouns
You could use teacher assessment or student self
assessment or peer assessment to determine if
students are using the correct grammatical
construction.
Description of
Assessment
Assessment is an
appraisal.
It is the gathering of
information
necessary to take
action. It can be
negative or positive.
What assessments did
you conduct today?
Did you decide to drive or take the bus? What
information - assessments did you use to make
your decision?
Did you decide to bring an umbrella or leave your
umbrella at home?
Write down three to five assessments that you
conducted in the last twenty four hours.
Description of
Assessment
Turn to the person sitting next to you and
describe the assessments that you have done in
the last 24 hours.
Description of
Assessment
Think about the types of assessments that you
conducted.
Where all of the assessments the same or were
they different?
For example, did you listen to the weather so you
could decide if you were going to take an
umbrella?
Did you smell the milk to decide if you were
going to use it for your coffee or throw it away?
Assessment is Integrated
into Life
We are assessing all of the time.
Assessment is integrated into life.
Description of
Assessment
How many different forms of assessment did you
do?
Were the assessments separate or part of your
life?
Assessment is integrated into life.
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Integrated Assessment is merely a
way to integrate multiple assessment
practices into classroom instruction.
Classic Assessment
Distinctions
Formative Assessment
Summative Assessment- BCT - GEPT - TOEFL TOEIC - IELTS - University and College Entrance
Exam
Formative & Summative
Assessment
Formative
Assessment
This type of
assessment
takes place
during different
the instructional
process or cycle.
Summative
Assessment
This type of
assessment takes
place at the end of
the instructional
process or cycle.
Formative - Summative
Assessment
Think about the type
of assessments did
you do in the last 24
hours? Formative or
summative? Why do
you think so?
What is multiple
assessment?
Multiple Assessment can refer to - formative assessment
- summative assessment.
Multiple Assessment can refer to observations,
portfolios, self assessment, peer assessment, games,
worksheets, comments from parents, etc.
Educational Assessment like assessment in real life
needs to be integrated.
Need for Integrated
Assessment
Teachers are challenged with up to 12 classes
that they must teach and assess.
Multiple Assessment has the unfortunate
implication that it is something multiple to be
added to what is already taking place in the
classroom.
Integrated assessment should reflect good
instruction and be multifaceted in nature.
Multiple Assessment
Versus Integrated
Assessment
There are multiple forms of assessment that are
already taking place in Taiwanese classrooms.
The goal is to expand and integrate forms of
assessment into regular classroom instruction.
For middle school the goal is to integrate other
forms of assessment that will prepare students for
the BCT.
Moving Beyond Testing
Testing versus Learning
Consider the way children learn to speak in
their home language.
How are learners assessed?
Are they tested?
Think about the different things children do
with language.
Discussion of testing
Multiple Assessment
is needed because
concerns about
formative and
summative
assessment and the
negative
ramifications of
testing.
Washback Effect
Testing has been known to have very negative
washback effects. Testing can cause learners to
be disinterested in the learning process.
Testing does not often have a direct relationship
to the language that learners find to be
meaningful.
Moving Beyond Testing
When children learn their home language they
use it to accomplish different things. Parents,
other caregivers and teachers use a variety of
techniques, mainly informally to assess how well
children are learning listening and speaking
skills.
The assessment is not test based.
Purposes of Assessment
What do you think are the different aims or
purposes of assessment that take place in ELT
public school classrooms in Taiwan?
Purposes of Assessment
To determine if the learners find the content to
be too easy, too difficult, interesting, boring, etc.
To determine how well students feel about what
they are learning and how high they are trying.
To assign grades or scores.
To be a motivational tool for learners.
To gather data regarding learner progress.
Purposes of
Assessment
To determine if the curricular guidelines are
appropriate and being followed.
To serve as a data source for parents.
To serve as a data source for the Ministry of
Education.
To serve as a data source for textbook publishers
in Taiwan.
Purposes of Assessment
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To prepare students for high stakes
examinations.
Preparing for High
Stakes Exams
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What do you include on the monthly tests?
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List the content that you include. Each group will
include different content.
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1st grade
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2nd grade
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3rd grade
Need for Integrated
Assessment in Taiwan
It reflects the spirit of recommended ELT
practices.
It can promote positive washback.
It can be adapted to a wide variety of assessment
purposes.
Integrated Assessment
Assessment needs to be integrated into textbooks.
Assessment needs to be integrated into all phases
of instruction.
Assessment Integrated
into Foreign Language
Instruction
The US State of Wisconsin has strived to
integrate assessment into instruction.
Look at the video and write down three ways that
assessment is integrated into instruction.
World Language
Assessment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baIeA8UrkE
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This video from Wisconsin shows how
assessment is integrated into teaching and
learning.
Assessment
Suggestions – to be
integrated with
instruction
Sample Activities – Concentration
Listen and Follow the instructions to
create the game.
What language can students practice with
this game?
Self Assessment RubricI can use is/are correctly.
Never Sometimes Often Always
Peer Assessment RubricMy partner can use is/are correctly
Never Sometimes Often Always
Rubrics are scoring guides. Each group will need
to create a rubric. Tomorrow you will create a
lesson based on the curricular guidelines that
utilize a different form of assessment.
Aim of Assessment
Rubrics•
Assessment rubrics are designed to serve as a
menu.
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Select several items from the assessment rubrics
to use during a particular lesson.
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Finish your rubrics.
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You may want to add additional items to your
rubrics. You may also want to be more specific
with the criteria.
Present your rubric.
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You might want to add comments about how the
rubric will help students prepare to communicate
for the current or future BCT.
Simple Story Map
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Listen to the story. Make a simple story map.
Look at the story map. You do not need to see
the pictures of the story as I read it aloud.
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Testing Miss Malarkey by Judy Finchler
Simple Dialogue Map
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Create your own simple dialogue map.
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Characters – Names and who they are (a boy, a
mom, etc.)
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Where are they?
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What are they talking about or trying to do?
Rubric
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I understand the dialogue.
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I know who the characters are?
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I know where they are.
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I know what they are talking about or
trying to do.
Story Map or Dialogue
Map
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Get into groups of 3 or 4.
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Each group will create a story map or dialogue
map. The dialogue map or story maps will come
from the textbooks. Selected groups will present
the story or dialogue maps.
Lesson plans with
rubrics.
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Each group will need to prepare a mini-three to
five minute lesson. You will need to also prepare
a teacher assessment rubric and another rubric.
Each rubric only needs to have one or two items
on it.
Copies of the Rubric in
advance.
Prepare you’re the rubric for your lesson
before you give the minilesson.
Minilesson
presentations- (5
minutes per group)
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Each group will present the lessons to the rest of
the group.
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One member of your group will need to go over
the assessment rubrics at the end of the lesson.
Sum Up
Assessment and Rubrics
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Thank you for your attention!