• Assessment for Linguistically Diverse Students
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  • Session One: Understanding My Role as an Assessor
  • Session Two: Developing Understanding through Media
  • Session Three: Designing Assessment Using Standards for Effective Pedagogy
  • Session Four : Considering Alternative Assessments in Relationship to ELs
  • Session Five: Designing and Developing Assessments
  • Session Six: Debating and Responding to Assessment Issues
  • Session Seven: Developing Knowledge for Practice and Advocacy
  • Session Eight : Revealing My Learning
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  • HW 5.2: Developing Expertise in Item Writing

    • HW 5.2: Developing Expertise in Item Writing

    Building Assessment Skill

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    Learning Outcome Pedagogical Intent Student Position

    Demonstrate knowledge and use of a variety of on-going, classroom-based assessments adapted to student needs.

    Assessment: 50 pts.

    Due: Session 6

    Teachers can improve the quality of their assessments to receive clearer information about student learning of content, performance skills, and language development.

    Students have learned about designing traditional paper-pencil tests, alternative assessment and how to develop rubrics and scoring guides. They are now prepared to revise and complete a draft of their unit assessment plan.

    Instructions

    1. Read about the principles governing technically adequate traditional test items in Barton and Gibbons’ Test Questions: A Self-Instructional Booklet.
    2. As you read, complete the Questions portion of the booklet, which asks you to identify when and if a principle is being violated. Mark your responses in the spaces provided.
    3. Check your answers using the answer key in the booklet
    4. Examine the chart titled Guidelines for Writing Traditional Tests and Test Items. 
    5. Based on your reading in the Barton and Gibbons booklet. and the Guideline chart just discussed, analyze the quality of the Reform Movements Test sample provided.
    6. Evaluate the instructions and test items for clarity, conciseness, and coherence. Write comments or suggestions directly on the test.

    This content is provided to you freely by BYU Open Learning Network.

    Access it online or download it at https://open.byu.edu/diverse_assessment/hw_54.