This document provides an overview of an online training course on language assessment for teachers of English. The course consists of 10 modules that cover topics like the language assessment process, objectives, assessment methods and instruments, scoring, and interpreting results. It aims to help teachers conduct key assessment tasks like identifying purposes and targets, choosing methods, analyzing and interpreting results, and providing feedback. The course requirements include completing online modules (40% of grade) and a final project (60% of grade), which involves developing reading assessment tests and submitting all materials by October 30, 2020.

1. KIỂM TRA ĐÁNH GIÁ
NGOẠI NGỮ
LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT
FOR TEACHERS OF
ENGLISH
Giảng viên tập huấn: ThS Lê Nguyễn Như Anh
Trường Đại Học Sư Phạm TPHCM
Khoa Tiếng Anh
Tập huấn:

2. Nội dung tập huấn
01
02
Tổng quan chương trình
Khóa học online
03
Yêu cầu hoàn thành khóa học

3. Course overview
Course description
This course introduces learners to common
tasks in the language assessment process.
Learners practice and develop their autonomy,
self-assessment, and critical thinking skills via
analyzing the problems and performing major
assignments.

4. Course overview
Objectives
TEACHERS will be able to conduct major
language assessment tasks in the classroom,
particularly in
1) Identifying purposes and targets of assessment
2) Identify and use language assessment methods
3) Analyze and interpret language assessment
results
4) Provide criterion-referenced feedback to
students

5. Modul
e
Unit/Topic Outcomes Online materials,
Contents
1 Language
assessment
process
+ Define and explain
meanings and
relationships of key
terms: measurement,
evaluation, assessment
and testing
+ Explain and
distinguish among a
wide range of language
assessment purposes
+ Identify steps in a
classroom assessment
process
+ Distinctions among
assessment, testing,
measurement, and
evaluation
+ Assessment decisions
about students
+ Assessment process
and the alternatives in
each step

6. Module Unit/Topic Outcomes Online materials, Contents
2 Language
assessment
objectives
+ Explain the importance of
well-defined goals for
language instruction and
assessment practices
+ Name and define major
categories in Bloom’s (1956)
taxonomy of thinking skills
+ Name and define the main
components in Bachman’s
(1990) concept of
communicative language
ability
+ Understand popular
frameworks of communicative
language ability in assessment
practices
+ The importance of learning
goals/objectives for language
instruction and assessment
practices
+ The components of
language learning
goals/objectives
+ The qualities of good
language learning goals
+ Examples of how a
communicative language
ability framework is realized in
assessment

7. Modul
e
Unit/Topic Outcomes Online materials,
Contents
3 Assessment
objectives in
four
language
skills
+ Understand the
assessment objectives in
four major English skills
+ Write a set of learning
goals for a particular
English language lesson
+ Evaluate a set of
learning goals against
major criteria
+ Assessment objectives
in four major English
skills

8. Module Unit/Topic Outcomes Online materials, Contents
4 Alternatives in
language
assessment
+ Appraise (benefits) and
criticize (drawbacks)
different methods in
language assessment, and
justify their appraisal and
criticism by relevant
theoretical and empirical
evidences
+ Identify main influential
factors as to their choice of
an appropriate assessment
practice for a particular
purpose, to a particular
target population and in a
particular context
+ Different alternatives in
language assessment
+ Their strengths and
weaknesses
+ Factors in choosing
suitable assessment
practices

9. Module Unit/Topic Outcomes Online materials, Contents
5 Assessment
instruments –
selected
response
questions
+ Define and distinguish
general types of
assessment instruments for
classroom assessment
+ Understand features of
close-ended assessment
instruments and questions
+ Evaluate the
appropriateness of close-
ended assessment
questions and tasks for
different assessment
purposes
+ Classification of
assessment instruments
+ Types of close-ended
questions
+ Fundamentals of
constructing and
major types of close-
questions for language
assessment

10. Module Unit/Topic Outcomes Online materials, Contents
6 Assessment
instruments –
constructed
response
questions
+ Interpret/Evaluate the
appropriateness of language
assessment instruments for
purpose of classroom
assessment-for-learning
+ Distinguish major
performance-based
assessment instruments
+ Understand key principles in
designing major
based language assessment
instruments
+ Evaluate major
based assessment instruments
+ Introduction to open-ended
questions (definitions,
+ A focus on essays – a
category of open-ended
questions
+ Introduction to
performance-based
assessment
instruments/questions
(definitions, features)
+ Principles of designing and
evaluating performance-
language assessment
instruments

11. Modul
e
Unit/Topic Outcomes Online materials,
Contents
7 Scoring
language
assessment
+ Distinguish types of
instruments to score
assessment results
+ Identify common
in scoring rubrics
+ Understand tips in
designing scoring
rubrics
+ Principles for scoring
different types of
assessment
questions/tasks
+ Types of scoring
instruments
+ Features of good
scoring instruments
+ Common flaws and
tips in designing scoring
rubrics

12. Modul
e
Unit/Topic Outcomes Online materials,
Contents
8 Interpreting
assessment
results in
language
classrooms
+ Identify different
frameworks to interpret
scores
+ Describe different
ways of reporting scores
+ Interpret assessment
results from descriptive
statistics
+ Use the descriptive
statistics of assessment
results to interpret the
results
+ Frequency distribution
+ Characteristics of
frequency distribution
+ Central tendency
descriptive data
+ Reporting and
interpreting the analyses

13. Modu
le
Unit/Topic Outcomes Online materials,
Contents
9 Reporting
and
feedback
to student
+ Familiarize with
some different
reporting methods
and understand the
pros and cons of
each type
+ Identify features
of feedback to
enhance language
learning
+ Methods of giving
feedback on
progress
+ Feedback to
enhance learning

14. Modul
e
Unit/Topic Outcomes Online materials,
Contents
10 Qualities of
good
language
assessment
+ Define major qualities
of a good language test
+ Compare and
their core insights and
explain how they would
affect the overall
usefulness of the test
+ Qualities of a good
language assessment
+ Techniques to
improve the qualities of
a language assessment
+ Ethical issues in
language assessment.
+ Guidelines/principles
for using assessment

15. Khóa học Online

16. Yêu cầu hoàn thành khóa học
1. Khóa học Online (40%)
2. Dự án cuối khóa (60%)

17. Yêu cầu hoàn thành khóa học
Dự án cuối khóa (60%)
- Học viên làm việc cá nhân
- Soạn 2 bài kiểm tra kỹ năng Đọc, mỗi bài 5 câu
hỏi (kèm các thông số kiểm tra bằng công cụ).
- Trình bày toàn bộ trong 1 file word duy nhất.
- Mô tả chi tiết yêu cầu bài cuối kỳ:
bit.ly/thptdanhgiacuoiky
- Bài mẫu tham khảo:
bit.ly/danhgiasample

18. Yêu cầu hoàn thành khóa học
3. Dự án cuối khóa (70%)
- Hình thức nộp bài: Học viên nộp bài tại địa
chỉ sau:
bit.ly/nopbai_danhgia_2020
- Hạn nộp bài: 30 tháng 10 năm 2020

19. THAT’S ALL
Thank you for your attention