PdF:AJ2RC_TEST Testing and Assessment - Course Information
AJ2RC_TEST Testing and Assessment
Faculty of EducationSpring 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/12. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Martina Hulešová, M.A., Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- AJ2RC_TEST/OS01: Fri 20. 2. 13:00–14:40 učebna 58, Fri 6. 3. 13:00–14:40 učebna 58, Fri 20. 3. 13:00–14:40 učebna 58, M. Hulešová
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Studies to Extend Teaching Qualification for Lower Seconday Schools (programme PdF, C-CV, specialization Anglický jazyk a literatura pro základní školy)
- Course objectives
- The course offers basic information about creating and using standardised/nonstandardised language tests for teachers.
- Syllabus
- Teaching and testing Kinds of tests and testing Validity, reliability Test development Test techniques Testing writing, testing speaking Testing reading, testing listening
- Literature
- required literature
- HUGHES, Arthur. Testing for language teachers. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, xii, 251. ISBN 0521484952. info
- not specified
- PALMER, Adrian S. and Lyle F. BACHMAN. Language testing in practice : designing and developing useful language tests. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, vi, 377. ISBN 0194371484. info
- BACHMAN, Lyle F. An investigation into the comparability of two tests of English as a foreign language. Edited by Bernard Spolsky. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 228 s. ISBN 0521481678. info
- CARROLL, Brendan J. and Patrick J. HALL. Make your own language tests : a practical guide to writing language performance tests. 1st ed. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1985, xi, 172 s. ISBN 0-08-031547-X. info
- Advanced in language testing. Edited by Bernard Spolsky. Arlington, Va.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1979, vii, 139 s. ISBN 0-87281-074-7. info
- Teaching methods
- The course will be taught using the following methods:
1. Group-work (constructing tests);
2. Problem-solving (classroom activities)
3. Pretesting;
4. Peer evaluation of the presented outcomes (in the classroom as well as online during the follow-up phase);
5. Tutor's feedback, pretesting results discussed. - Assessment methods
- Presentation of own test created according to the given criteria.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
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