Impact Sample Response – Professional
- FLAD
- Foreign Language Assessment Directory
- Understanding Assessment Tutorial
- Heritage Language Assessment Module
- Post-Secondary World Language Assessment Module
- Introduction
- Proficiency
- Placement Testing
- Assessment Plans
- Assessment Plans: The Why
- Assessment Plans: The How
- Aligning Assessment with Instruction
- Performance-based Assessment Tasks
- Designing Performance-based Assessment Tasks
- Scoring Performance-based Assessment Tasks
- Using Integrated Performance Assessments
- Designing Integrated Performance Assessments
- Intercultural Communicative Competence
- Assessing Intercultural Communication
- Assessing Cultures
- Assessment and Program Articulation
- Summary of Best Practices
- Show What You Know!
- Putting It All Together
- Resources
Concerns & considerations:
- Would be very high stakes for the test takers
- Needs to be reliable
- Need to consider the costs of administering and scoring the tests
- Need to think about training for test administrators
- Test would need to be taken and scored in a short time frame for the hiring process
- Need to make sure that the test measures skills that are actually needed on the job