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raditional assessments are “tests” taken with paper and pencil that are usually true/false, matching, or multiple choice. These assessments are easy to grade, but only test isolated application, facts, or memorized data at lower-level thinking skills. Traditional assessment provides little evidence of what a language learner actually can do with the language.
In order to evaluate what a language learner can do with the language, a student must be evaluated using various performance tasks and assessments.
Performance assessments include authentic assessments, alternative assessments, and integrated performance assessments.
Learners must use more complex, higher-order thinking skills. They must reason, problem-solve, or collaborate with others to produce individual responses. Rubrics, provided ahead of time so learners know their expectations, are used to evaluate students on multiple competency levels.
TRADITIONAL ASSESSMENT
Multiple Choice is an efficient and effective way to assess a wide range of knowledge, skills, attitudes and abilities is a very flexible assessment format that can be used to measure knowledge, skills, abilities, values, thinking skills, etc. Such a test usually consists of a number of items that pose a question to which students must select an answer from among a number of choices.
True-False
Matching
Norm-referenced and Criterion referenced test
The Characteristics of Effective Assessment
Valid
The assessment should measure what is intended. For example, to assess practical ability, it should look at how the results were obtained in addition to the results themselves.
Reliable and consistent
Assessment criteria and marking schemes should be robust so that grades are consistent when more than one assessor marks the work or when one assessor marks the work on different occasions.
Transparent
The assessment should be clearly aimed at meeting the learning objectives for the topic.
Fair
All students should have the same