Assessment+Resources

Post information, resources, and tips regarding assessing language learning here.

We considered the following questions when including a resource here:

1. Has this resource significantly **impacted the way I think** about assessment?

2. Is this resource **essential to helping others** **understand** key concepts, principles, or components of assessment?

3. Does this resource offer **practical help** to educators who are struggling to assess their students, provide timely feedback, and communicate information about student progress to colleagues, parents, and community members?

4. Does this resource provide something invaluable to professional educators? (In other words, would there be a **professional knowledge gap if it were missing** from this list?)

[|Improving Student Learning Through Reflective Assessment] - This newsletter from the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center contains links to websites that offer practical interventions, strategies, and techniques for reflectively assessing students in foreign language classrooms. (Contributed by user:chericem1)

= = =Performance-based Assessment=

[|Assessment Tasks : Classroom : CGTL, FDU] - Brief explanation of performance-based assessment user:chericem1

[|Measuring Success - The Second Language Proficiency Assessment] - Packet of materials that outlines the structure of NY's LOTE proficiency assessment, along with practical strategies and rubrics for assessing students user:chericem1

[|Thematically Organized Assessment Tasks - FLENJ] - Outlines the concept of thematically organized assessment and provides an extensive list of links to examples from a variety of languages and levels user:chericem1

[|World Languages Online Learning Scenario Project] - NJ frameworks project. . . learning scenarios designed w/ UBD principles and packaged as "thematic" units based on ACTFL proficiency guidelines. . . monarch butterflies user:chericem1

= = =Portfolio Assessment=

[|LinguaFolio USA!] - Online ppt that describes the European origins of LinguaFolio, compares and contrasts it with the ACTFL proficiency guidelines, and distinguishes between proficiency and performance user:chericem1

[|Portfolio Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom] - Extensive set of materials re: portfolio assessment in FL. Includes links to multiple examples of self-assessments user:chericem1

=Self-assessment=

[|Blueprint for a Self-assessment Tool for Intercultural Awareness] - 5 level rating scale for a variety of sub-domains of intercultural awareness user:chericem1

[|Greenfield Community College Student Self-assessment] - Lengthy checklists designed to help students self-evaluate their own performance re: multiple facets of FL learning user:chericem1

[|Using Self-Assessment in the Classroom: Rationale & Suggested Techniques] - Rationale for the use of self-assessment in FL, followed by a list of suggested strategies user:chericem1

=Videos=

[|YouTube - One Semester of Spanish - Love Song] - Hysterical, well done, and a perfect tool for engaging interns and experienced teachers in thinking about assessment, teaching, and learning a language user:chericem1

See also: Administrivia, Assessment, Cheating, Curriculum Development, Getting Organized, Inquiry-Research-Reflection, Managing the Paper Overload, Performance-based Assessment, Project Ideas, Rubrics, School Improvement

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