Adult Evening Class
- 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
In this situation, would you…
___ Select an existing assessment?
_X_Â Modify an existing assessment?
___ Develop your own assessment?
Provide a few examples of what you might do to support your choice.Â
Because the existing assessments are already appropriate for the age and proficiency levels of my students, I would choose an existing assessment and modify it to fit my specific heritage learner context. For example, I could…
- Include more test content and examples that are relevant and authentic to a professional context
- Increase the level of difficulty of the test contentÂ