1. The document discusses key concepts in language assessment including terminology, different types of assessments, and principles of effective assessment. 2. It describes formative and summative assessment, with formative used to identify student strengths and weaknesses and summative used to formally evaluate learning at the end of a period. 3. Important principles of language assessment discussed are practicality, reliability, validity, authenticity, and washback effect. Reliability and validity are important for assessments to accurately and consistently measure what they are intended to.

1. ASSESSMENT AND
EVALUATION
Sánchez Medina Jhon Jairo
NCR 18235

2. Principles of Language
Assessment
Assessment terminology
Testing should be part of another
learning experience that contributes to
the acquisition of knowledge.
Assessment and Testing
“appraising or estimating the level of
magnitude of some attribute of a person”
(Mousavi, 2009, p.36)
Assessment series of actions carried out by the
teacher.
to measure student responses, actions,
performance and behavior.
Testing evaluation methods that indicate to
teachers the skills and knowledge of students.
Providing information about student
performance in a given area.

3. Measurement and
Evaluation
Measuring the process of quantifying individual
achievements. quantitative and qualitative.
The first is used to assign numbers or symbols to observables.
phenomena, while the second provides descriptive data,
provides written information descriptions or spoken
comments. Measuring the process of quantifying individual
achievements. quantitative and qualitative.
descriptions or spoken comments.

4. Formal and Informal Assessment
Informal evaluation: Individual and spontaneous
way of measuring student progress without any
grading criteria.
Formal evaluation: Objectively verifies student
performance. Provides specific and clear information
about how much individuals have
learned during a period or cycle.
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Formative and Summative Assessment
Formative evaluation: Identify weaknesses
and strengths.strengths.
Summative evaluation: Formally evaluates
the student's learning, knowledge, and
success at the end of a period.

5. Types and purposes of assessment
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It depends on the purpose of the assessment and
evaluation instrument, educators and administrators
design tests.
Test of
performance
Placement test Proficiency tests Aptitude test
Diagnostic tests

6. Principles of language assessment
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Practicality
• Deals with administrative aspects. In the evaluation of
an instrument. Includes doing, giving and grade a test.
• Costs, time scores and results.
Brown and
Douglas
• - Does not exceed budget limits.
• - It is taken within the indicated time.
• - Has clear instructions
• -Appropriately used human and material resources.

7. Reliability Consistency of test results. Results must be the same,
between reliability terminology
Learner-Related reliability
It occurs when the
examinee suffers from a
physical or psychological
problem. Illness - anxiety.
Inter-rater reliability
Two or more scorers agree on
the results of the test. The
scores provided by the
examiners do not change.
Test administration reliability
These are the conditions of
administration of the test. The quality of
the photocopy of the exam, light in the
classroom, the noise outside the
classroom, the temperature inside the
classroom, the quality of the desks and
chairs.
Test reliability
Brown and Douglas say that test
reliability occurs when the test
causes measurement errors.

8. Validity
Validity tests what it is intended to
measure.
It involves measuring what is supposed
to be measured.
• Content-related validity
Measurement of all important sections of the
theme or content.
• Criterion-related validity
It is the relationship between a measure and a standard (an external element). The
measurement must agree with the norm, if there is a relationship With the standard
we can say that the test is valid.
• Construct-related validity
Determines whether a test evaluates what it is supposed to do.
The test should be designed to measure the content of a course.
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9. Autheticity
Evaluations are authentic when they focus
about real-world life events.
Problem-solving exercises are examples of
authentic assessment.
Students need to justify their answers.
linked to the real world.
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10. Washback effect
 The test has great
influence on the way the
teacher teaches.
 Washback has a great
effect of testing on
teaching and learning.
 Students know the format
of the test beforehand,
consequently, students
prepare enough. Feedback
before the exam date that
promotes language
improvement.
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11. MUCHAS GRACIAS